Liam Lee

Aug 22

Written By Admin

INSIDERS

Liam Lee’s felted furniture is a fantasy come to life. The architect of his dream world, Lee navigates the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces and the human-made and organic through domestic objects inspired by natural environments. Through a labor-intensive process, the self-taught artist builds armatures out of plywood, onto which he needle-felts hand-dyed merino wool to make chairs in radiating color gradients resembling coral and anemones. The smoothness of their bulbous and sinuous bodies blurs a point of origin in their creation, demon- strating Lee’s interest in spontaneous generation. In this alchemical princi- ple, living organisms are born from non-living materials. His large-scale monochromatic tapestries resemble the microscopic landscape of bacteria while pointing to Lee’s pursuit of bringing nature indoors.

While studying English literature and poetry, Lee developed a sensitivity for the layered meaning of objects and how they can establish spatial memory. He provokes the paradoxical feeling of simultaneous recognition and unfamiliarity through his objects. The biological forms of Lee’s chairs paired with the wall hangings in hues so bright that they appear toxic make for beautiful yet alien objects within a domestic context.

B. 1993, New York, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

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