IL LEE – Eye On Alumni
November 10, 2010Gateway (Pratt Institute, New York)
When The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens its newly installed Arts of Korea Gallery this month, it will showcase two works by Il Lee (M.F.A. ’82), a Korean-born, New York-based artist best known for creating innovative works both on paper and canvas using ballpoint… Read More 
Top Summer Shows You Can Still Catch, North and South - IL Lee
September 08, 2010The Huffington Post
This week we jump from the north to the south in the western states outside of California to pinpoint the top shows that will carry over from the summer season. With Labor Day past, this coming weekend opens the new season with a plethora of new shows.... Read More
Communicating Translation - Pouran Jinchi
August 31, 2010The Cornell Daily Sun
The new group exhibit, Tarjama/Translation, at the Johnson Museum meditates on the difficulties of translation — an inherently incomplete art — and offers visual means for filling in the lacunas of understanding. The curators looked beyond overplayed subjects (such as… Read More
Il Lee’s Large Ballpoint Pen Drawings Harness a Powerful Quiet
June 07, 2010D Magazine
Calm and frenzy lay down together in the remarkable little show of big work New Vision: Ballpoint Drawings by Il Lee at the Crow Collection through September 26. Lee makes huge abstract drawings by scribbling with a ballpoint pen until paper or canvas is coated with… Read More
Contrapuntal Infinitudes: Il Lee at Art Projects International
June 01, 2010artcritical
For some 30 years Il Lee has exclusively used, and abused, ballpoint pens, surely by now many tens of thousands of them, to make extraordinary drawings. A satisfying survey of his works on paper from the past 10 years (he also draws on canvas) is currently on view at… Read More
Bangkok Report: In the New Siam - Richard Tsao
June 01, 2010Art in America
Richard Tsao, long based in New York but closely linked to his Thai homeland, creates thickly layered, encrusted canvases distantly influenced by Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting but with a palette born in the flower market of Bangkok... Read More
IL LEE: Small Works 2001-2010 at Art Projects International
March 30, 2010The Drawing Center News, The Bottom Line
Currently on display is a brilliant selection of ballpoint pen drawings by artist Il Lee (b. 1952, Korea) created from 2001-2010. Lee has been creating ballpoint pen drawings for over 30 years, and they continue to dazzle. Black, and in more recent works, blue and red… Read More
Enriched by Tradition – Pouran Jinchi
February 05, 2010Gulf News, Dubai
Pouran Jinchi is reviewed in Gulf News. Read More
Like a Prayer – Pouran Jinchi
January 28, 2010Time Out Dubai
Pouran Jinchi is reviewed in Time Out Dubai. Read More
