Lindy Lee

Lindy Lee is a first generation Chinese Australian, who investigates issues of selfhood and identity. Her work embodies a dramatic visual language of bold colours and gestures often combined with photographic images from various sources. These photographs include portraits of Lee’s wider family, her travels to China, and Kuan Yin, the Chinese Goddess of Mercy. Informed by her study and practice of Zen buddhism, Lee’s work links east and west, joining body and spirit and connecting past with present.

Lee works with symbols and a visual language that only fundamentally she knows what it means. Like Warhol she uses symbols that others may understand, however, unlike Warhol Lee uses them for an intrinsic meaning. I find it interesting that you can create a visual language that you only really know the meaning for, but other can reconise certain aspects of it and draw their own conclusions.


reference:
Buther et. al. 2004. What Is Appropriation?; An Anthology of Writing on Australian Art In The 1980's & 1990's. IMA Publishing : Brisbane.