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Tomato Can
Austin Lee, Berlin, 19 January - 2 March 2018

Tomato Can Austin Lee

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Press release

Peres Projects is pleased to present Tomato Can, the first solo exhibition in Berlin of American artist Austin Lee. Lee’s impetus for making art capitalizes on his obsession with a digitally and technologically advancing world, the impact this has on contemporary culture, society, politics, and how it affects the way we look at art. Lee’s ambition in this body of work is to ask the viewer to question the relationship between digital manipulation and physical experience, and the exhibition functions as an intersection between reality and a surrealism driven by technological advancement.

 

In Tomato Can, Lee focuses on paintings which are executed based on digital sketches and painted on canvas with an airbrush. The works follow basic compositional forms, have a flattened spatial depth and are heavy on primary colors, a nod to Lee’s digital sketching process. Lee’s choice of color is based on the purpose of stimulating light and creating intense vibrations, reminding the viewer that the primary way of thinking about color today is in the context of the digital realm. However, the way our computers display color is only an imitation of the way we as humans biologically process it. The human eye is sensitive to three different wavelengths of light - red, green and blue, but by combining these three signals, the brain creates millions of different hues.

 

With so much of our brain activity devoted to vision, Tomato Can is an effort to translate this activity into perceptual reality. Rooted in perception, interpretation, emotion and action, Lee’s latest exhibition is led by the question of how to take the invisible and make it visible.

 

Austin Lee (b.1983) lives and works in New York. He received an MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art and a BFA from Tyler School of Art.

Peres Projects’s opening hours are Monday through Friday, 11am – 6pm. For further information and sales inquiries, please contact Javier Peres (jp@peresprojects.com), Nick Koenigsknecht (nick@peresprojects.com) or call at +49 (0) 30 275 950770. For press and media inquiries, please contact media@peresprojects.com or +49 (0) 30 275 950770.

Installation Shots
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Austin Lee Tomato Can Installation View January 19 - March 02, 2018 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Austin Lee Tomato Can Installation View January 19 - March 02, 2018 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Austin Lee Tomato Can Installation View January 19 - March 02, 2018 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Austin Lee Tomato Can Installation View January 19 - March 02, 2018 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Austin Lee Tomato Can Installation View January 19 - March 02, 2018 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Austin Lee Tomato Can Installation View January 19 - March 02, 2018 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Press
  • Installation view of Austin Lee's exhibition "Tomato Can" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2018)

    Exhibition//Austin Lee’s “Tomato Can” at Peres Projects

    Jack Radley, Berlin Art Link, February 16, 2018
  • Installation view of Austin Lee's exhibition "Tomato Can" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2018)

    Austin Lee Turns Donald Trump’s Drawing of the Empire State Building Into a Symbol of the Unreality of Our Times—See It

    Kate Brown, Artnet News, January 30, 2018
  • Installation view of Austin Lee's exhibition "Tomato Can" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2018)

    Austin Lee Will Open A “Tomato Can” @ Peres Projects, Berlin

    Juxtapoz Magazine, January 19, 2018
  • Installation view of Austin Lee's exhibition "Tomato Can" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2018)

    Top Art Shows in Berlin This Week: Austin Lee to Georg Baselitz to Marc Chagall

    Blouin Artinfo, January 18, 2018
  • Austin Lee "Lean" (2018) (detail)

    Austin Lee; Tomato Can

    Interview Magazine, January 16, 2018

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