Sandra Eula Lee

Opening this Saturday ✨ Excited to share that my work 'The Road Less Traveled' will be on view in Re-Union, New York: Against Weight, Toward Lightness Re-Union, New York unfolds within the dynamic conditions of the 42nd Street–8th Avenue subway station, where the exhibition operates as an embedded structure within the flow of the city. Bringing together artists who have been part of WhiteBox over the past three decades, the project proposes an open field of relations, where objects, bodies, and images circulate across shifting contexts of meaning, perception, and encounter. 📍 WhiteBox Portable, in partnership with Chashama and MTA 🗓 Opening: Saturday, May 9, 3–7 PM Thanks to curators @juanpuntes & @yohannamagdaleneroa and @chashama Hope to see you there💜 Find us at: 42 St – 8 Ave Subway Station (Above Lines A, C, E, Downtown) Exhibition dates: May 9 – May 30, 2025 #sandraeulalee

On the cover of @pastpresentprojects , an amazing Philly journal highlighting practices intersecting critical histories with material culture! Please click thru for the conversation I had with curator/editor @heathergibsongirl and @knevilletaylor on the occasion of my solo at Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel U--much gratitude🙏🏽 💜 "Among the themes considered in the following essays and interviews, a throughline is the idea of process as an embedded layer within a work of art. The issue begins with Sandra Eula Lee, interviewed on her ongoing series The Walking Mountain. She compares the series to a musical score or a garden that changes as it is tended over time—the process of tending her installations creating new meaning with each iteration..." Hope you find time to read the issue online or support print media with your pre-order (link in bio), in bookshops in Philly, Baltimore, and NYC. Happy to be in company with @ye.zhu_ , Shaina Nez, @samaracweaver , @tabithakarnold , Miranda Riberior-Vecino, @oliviablocksound , Leo Tecosky, @aislinnpf , @rameymize , @jeremyfreybaskets , @mariadumlao , @jannanonymous #sandraeulalee

If you're free this Sat 4/18, we'd love to see you at the opening of the Pierogi Flat Files @manacontemporary ! Yun-fei and I will have a selection of drawings on view, curated by @pierogigalleryreal 🙏🏽 I'll have 8 new works on paper, the next chapter of The Walking Mountain series. These include wax that absorbs into the surface; I navigate the heat to reflect on water, fire, and geological minerals mined for technology. I continue to explore construction scaffolding and sites of change, ideas of progress/development. Works range from 10x11" to 13x14". Grateful to be included in such amazing company #sandraeulalee #yunfeiji

Opening this Fri, 6-8pm! @silverartprojects In the End, Everything Gives, curated by @sarahwalko 🙏💎 I'll be showing 'Under the Skin' alongside a fantastic group of artists @wsg.nyc , plus some new works on paper exploring minerals and the technology they're mined for. Much grattitude, hope to see you💜 'In the End, Everything Gives' presents a selection of works by thirty-one WSG members responding to turbulent political, ecological, and social conditions. The exhibition takes its title from a line by Ada Limón, which names both material and emotional states of yielding: “Everything gives way—the shorelines, the house decaying and becoming shrub and moss and haunt, the body that gives and gives until it cannot give anymore.” opening: January 23, 6–8pm runs January 23 – April 3, 2026 Silver Art Projects Four WTC, 28th Floor 150 Greenwich St (entrance on Liberty) rsvp link in bio (for security + need to bring your ID) #sandraeulalee

Yun-fei's show was reviewed on Artnet! 'Riding the Tiger' is on view through Dec 20, thanks so much to everyone who has stopped by!❤️ 48 Walker Street, Viewing Room💫💫 /art-world/yun-fei-ji-james-cohan-2722254

Opening Fri 11/7! Yun-fei's new exhibition Riding the Tiger 💜💎💜💎💜💎💜 Hope to see you @jamescohangallery 48 Walker St (Viewing Room), 6-8pm 🎉 ✨OPENING SOON✨ James Cohan is pleased to present Riding the Tiger, an exhibition of new paintings by Yun-Fei Ji, on view in the gallery’s 48 Walker Street viewing room from November 7 through November 25, 2025. This is the artist’s seventh solo exhibition with James Cohan. Please join us for an opening reception with the artist on Friday, November 7 from 6-8 PM. In his latest body of work, Yun-Fei Ji deepens his meditation on migration and belonging through a visual language that intertwines Chinese folklore with lived experience. Drawing upon the allegorical archetypes, parables, and moral cosmology of the narratives he absorbed as a child, including the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, Ji employs these rich traditions as frameworks for exploring the psychological and spiritual dimensions of displacement. Pulling us into a world populated by demons, spirits, and celestial soldiers, Ji reflects on the current migration crisis in the United States. 📸: YUN-FEI JI, The Round Up #1, 2025, oil on canvas, 22 x 18 in, 55.9 x 45.7 cm. Photo by Phoebe d’Heurle. #YunFeiJi #JamesCohan #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryChineseArt

Some new drawings I'm working on in wax, watercolor, and print on various papers. After exhibiting 'The Walking Mountain' drawings last year, I'm continuing the project in these times, applying more heat to the surface⛰️⛰️ #sandraeulalee

Some new drawings I'm working on in wax, graphite, colored pencil, stitching. After exhibiting 'The Walking Mountain' drawings last year, I'm continuing the project in these times, applying more heat to the surface #sandraeulalee

Reflecting on an incredible (and hot!) residency @wheatonarts ! So much gratitude to @rosenbergalexander and amazing team for sharing their expertise in the hot shop/flameworking studio with our cohort. Can't wait to work together again💜🔥💎🙏🏽 I started exploring glass in 2016 after returning to the U.S. from years based in Asia considering gardens, construction, and development narratives. I landed in rural Ohio, and the ruins of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Factory at Arial Foundation Park was a great inspiration. Subsequent workshops at Urban Glass in Brooklyn and Lancaster Creative Factory in PA were followed by a grant from the NJ State Council on the Arts; I purchased a small kiln to run material transformations, charring and burning, resulting in two exhibitions—‘A Map is Not the Territory’ and ‘Slow Burn’. Thrilled to pick up this line of thinking again-- now with sand casting/flameworking, and Pine Barrens ecology. Connecting different processes where heat migrates and alters states of matter** #sandraeulalee #wheatonarts

Full heart showing these new works at Smith College. 'Copper and Bone’ opened last week, with bright moments for me at the artist talk. Each time I'm invited to discuss material ecologies, it creates a window to see fresh connections between my research and the critical contexts informing them through the years-- U.S. and Asia, urban to rural. More efforts to reflect despite contradictory values and violently changing conditions** Thanks to @alexiscallender @quietpineapple @smithdeptofartsmith for the space on campus to share, centering material histories and making** Copper and Bone Jan 30-March 12, 2025 Oresman Gallery, Brown Fine Arts Center Smith College, Northampton, MA Materials: asphalt, construction mesh, copper, gypsum, minerals, brick, work shirt, electrical wiring, wax, mixed media on various papers #sandraeulalee

Now on view: "Copper and Bone," Sandra Eula Lee's latest exhibition, is on view in the Oresman Gallery, Hillyer through Mar. 13, 2025. Meet the Artist on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 Lecture: 4:30 - 5:30 PM | Graham, Hillyer Reception: 5:30 - 6:30 PM | Oresman Gallery, Hillyer This series of mixed-media sculptures reflecting intersections of natural and built environments. Discarded electronic components are paired with geologic minerals—materials extracted to drive technological advancement—creating a dialogue between progress and its environmental toll. White plaster structures, reminiscent of scaffolding, both frame and obscure these elements, evoking the impermanence of construction and the complexities of development. Lee reflects, “Moving across the land, images and sensations developed into a reflection on the wounded landscape, considering cultural memory, development narratives, and future ecology.” Through her combinations of industrial remnants and natural materials, Copper and Bone invites viewers to contemplate the intricate connections between humanity’s pursuit of progress and the landscapes left in its wake. Sandra Eula Lee is a Korean American artist who is currently Assistant Professor and Head of Visual Arts at Montclair State University. Lee’s work has been featured internationally in solo exhibitions, including a 10-year survey at The Hilliard Museum in Lafayette, LA, as well as shows at Art Space Pool in Seoul, The Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College, Drexel University in Philadelphia, and CEAC in Xiamen, China. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions including the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Incheon Art Platform in South Korea, the Inside-Out Museum in Beijing, Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, Goucher College in Baltimore, and The Delaware Contemporary. Awards include the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Lee participated in residencies at the Elizabeth Foundation Studio Center, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Residency Unlimited, and the Seoul Museum of Art, among others. She has an MFA from Hunter College and a BFA from Cornell University.

Getting ready to pack up these new works to take to Smith College next week! They grew from my work 'Electronic Garden', created in 2021 (first pic). At that time I started to combine defunct electronics with the minerals mined to create technology. So grateful to @sculpture_magazine for featuring it in 'Object Lessons' at the time. Since then, I've combined the electronic parts and minerals with the plaster scaffolding and construction mesh from my earlier works. This exhibition 'Copper and Bone' really explores sites of extraction, labor, and contradictory sensations of time. Copper and Bone Jan 30-March 12, 2025 Oresman Gallery, Brown Fine Arts Center Artist Talk: Thurs Jan 30, 4:30pm followed by an opening reception at 5:30pm Materials: construction mesh, copper, chalcopyrite, gypsum, bauxite, quartz, brick, work shirt, denim, asphalt, electrical wiring, wax #sandraeulalee