Austin Lee

Introduction

“WHETHER I KNEW IT OR NOT,” LEE RECALLS, “I THINK THAT’S WHAT’S BEEN DRIVING THE WORK SOMETIMES—THE MIX BETWEEN DIGITAL AESTHETIC AND DIGITAL SPACE AND TRYING TO BRIDGE THAT WITH EMOTIONS OR HUMANITY.”

– Austin Lee in Conversation w/ NATE RYNASKI, FLAUNT MAGAZINE, 2022

Austin Lee (b. 1983 in Las Vegas, US) lives and works in New York. From digital media to painting and sculpture, Lee adopts superficially benign, cartoon-like imagery to address the ubiquitous consumption of art online. Starting with digital 3D sketches that are painstakingly translated from the screen to the painted canvas or sculpted form, his work is deeply reverent to the canon of renaissance painting, while embodying the interconnected, digital landscape which augments our contemporary reality.

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