Sympathy

Geuryung Lee has an exhibition on Governors Island until November 5th.

Place: ArtsConnection, Colonels Row, House 408 B,
Governors Island
Open hours: Saturday, Sunday 11am - 5 pm

Artist Statement.
Geuryung Lee expresses the mind and spirit influenced by eastern culture using marks, signs, symbols, gestures, texture, shape, and value to convey situations, context and emotional states of being. She learned calligraphy when she was young and when she does calligraphy now, she reflects back to her childhood and release many emotions: happiness, sadness, depression, gratitude, passion, and energy as a form of spiritual practice. As an Asian female artist living in NYC – a uniquely diverse, ethnic, cultural and international community – she thinks about her nostalgia for her home country and her identity as a stranger.
During the pandemic, she has used her notes and words as motifs to explore the coexistence between diversity, nostalgia, immigration, social inequality, and culture. She has been asking herself: What is the life of an artist and art? In this reality, her dilemma has been what can she do best and how to do it now? The pandemic is not over yet, but people have returned to their daily lives. Through her work, she will memorize the sacrifice of people and comfort those who have suffered mental and emotional stress and congratulate people returning to daily life and deliver a message of hope.