Jaehyo Lee Press

EAST SIDE LIVING

The Avenue Concept, World Class Public Art to Providence
by Beth Adamo, March, 2016

The monumental work was installed last fall as part of INFLUX, an explosion of public art encounters by The Avenue Concept. Cited for its meticulous craftsmanship, “Lotus” is a conical pillar comprised of Korean big cone pine longs that are burned, shaped, and hand carved, stretching up 20 feet on a steel armature.

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MY MODERN MET

Elegant Wood Sculptures Crafted from Discarded Tree Trunks and Branches
by Jenny Zhang, August 12, 2015

South Korean artist Jae-Hyo Lee uses organic materials like wood to create large-scale, sculptural pieces that favor both form and function. Focusing on geometric shapes such as the sphere, Lee somehow manages to transform tree trunks and hefty branches into perfectly formed globes, columns, and furniture-like objects.

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NOTES ON THE ROAD

An Industrialist’s Son Turns Humble Factory Materials Into Sleek and Mysterious Sculptures: An Interview with JaeHyo Lee
by Karen Lo, January 24, 2013

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DESIGNBOOM

Transformations
Leigha, October 3, 2012

Korean artist JaeHyo Lee creates sculptures and furniture pieces from metal and chopped wood. These elements are bound together in such a way that the often-times linear building components become curved semi-geometric works of art. Each piece crafted by JaeHyo Lee is both an engaging shape within a given space while also existing as an object with an inherently domestic purpose.

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ARTDAILY

Second Solo Sculpture Show in the United States by JaeHyo Lee at Cynthia Reeves
February 2010

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SCULPTURE

The Possibilities of Nature
by Jonathan Goodman, May 2009, vol 28, No. 4

…Lee is so dedicated an artisan that his hand comes close to being anonymous. It is not so much that he is absent from his art as it is that he projects a thoroughgoing craft that builds on itself. Allowing the materials to speak to him, he builds self-contained worlds that mysteriously communicate with their outer surroundings…

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ARTNEWS

JaeHyo Lee Reeves Contemporay
by Amy Karafin, April 2008

Lee’s early interest in minimalist Earthworks was still evident here in the materials and they way in which they were exploited. But these new sculptures do not exalt nature so much as turn it inside out…

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