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… 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… 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… Read More
IL LEE: Small Works 2001-2010 at Art Projects Internatnional
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… Read More
Everyday Monuments: A Conversation with Jean Shin
March 29, 2010Sculpture Magazine
Known for her labor-intensive installations of everyday accumulations, Jean Shin broke new ground in Everyday Monuments, a commission begun in 2007 at the invitation of Joanna Marsh,… Read More
Enriched by Tradition - Pouran Jinchi
February 05, 2010Gulf News, Dubai
Pouran Jinchi is reviewed in Gulf News. Read More
Where I Work: Richard Tsao
November 01, 2009Art Asia Pacific
Tsao’s methods—spontaneous action, momentary deliberation and prolonged incubation—mean that any given work gestates for up to three years before the artist deems it complete...… Read More
Profile: Pouran Jinchi
October 01, 2009Canvas
Pouran Jinchi's profile by Ladan Akbarnia in the current issue of Canvas, the premier art and culture magazine published in Dubai. Read More
IL Lee in Santa Fe
August 07, 2009Pasatiempo (The Santa Fe New Mexican)
One of the most striking aspects of Il Lee's ballpoint drawings is how he manages to convey a great sense of depth using only one color applied to either canvas or paper in a seemingly… Read More
Museums: The Actually Cool Guide – Pouran Jinchi
July 30, 2009Time Out New York
...Especially moving is Pouran Jinchi’s Tajvid Red, hand-copied ink on a paper scroll, faithful to the Koran in every way except that it’s missing all of its Arabic consonants; and the… Read More
Iran Inside Out - Pouran Jinchi
July 23, 2009The New York Times
Often, though, inside-versus-outside is hard to discern at a glance. Almost all the artists here have a stake, in some way, in exploring what it means to be Iranian, and sometimes in… Read More
The Many Voices of Enlightment - Pouran Jinchi
June 12, 2009The New York Times
One, called “Prayer Stone 5,” is by Pouran Jinchi, an artist who was born in Iran and now lives in New York City. It consists of overlaid rubbings that Ms. Jinchi took of two carved… Read More
Because Everyone Deserves a Trophy - Jean Shin
April 08, 2009The New York Times
Jean Shin: Common Threads at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is reviewed in The New York Times, April 8, 2009. Read More
Pouran Jinchi in Art Asia Pacific
March 05, 2009Art Asia Pacific
...the evolution of Jinchi's abstract syntax suggested a symbiosis between the artist's method and her minimalist format. A recurring principle of formal repetition speaks to her… Read More
Royal Taste in Art Put on Display - Pouran Jinchi
November 17, 2008The National, UAE
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of AbuDhabi, will open the door to the Royal Family's private art collection for the first time this week. The exhibition... Read More
Nanoscale and Painting - Filipe Rocha da Silva
August 01, 2008Leonardo, MIT Press
Filipe Rocha da Silva creates very large paintings depicting extremely small, almost invisible figures. In "Nanoscale and Painting" he tries to explain why he does so and considers the… Read More
Lost in Transliteration - Pouran Jinchi
March 01, 2008Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art
...influenced by the abstract expressionists. Her works involve the subtraction of text from identified and identifiable sections that retains context. She states, “In Farsi and… Read More
IL LEE Ballpoint Drawings at the Queens Museum of Art
September 07, 2007The New York Times
A selection of drawings — striking indigo and black ink abstractions, all done exclusively in ballpoint pen, on paper and canvas — makes up this engrossing show by the veteran Korean… Read More
A Few Good Pens - IL LEE
September 01, 2007ARTnews
For a quarter century, the South Korean-born artist has been coaxing massive webs of line from disposable ballpoint pens.... For his solo show "Ballpoint Drawings," on view at the… Read More
To See the World in Ballpoint Pen - IL LEE
August 10, 2007The New York Times
What makes this work, and others like it, so alluring is its unexpected suggestiveness. When Mr. Lee's drawings conjure before you a soft, densely inked snowflakelike blob with… Read More
IL Lee - Queens Museum of Art
August 07, 2007The New Yorker
Hundreds of thousands of disposable ballpoint pens have passed through the Korean-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s hands over the years, and he’s mastered his medium. Read More
‘No Border’: Zheng Xuewu Solo Exhibition
August 01, 2007Time Out Beijing
Zheng Xuewu is one of the most casually innovative artists in China. His current solo effort includes three separate series. A mind-boggling installation titled... Read More
The Mountain’s Hold
August 01, 2007Living Art Magazine
The mountainous physicality of Japan, Korea and China provides some level of explanation. Living and breathing amongst such magnificent features would make it hard to rid the psyche of… Read More
Il Lee: Ballpoint Drawings - Queens Museum of Art
July 26, 2007Time Out New York
For the past several decades, the Korean-born artist has been fusing minimalist aesthetics and traditional Asian painting techniques into a series of sublime, black-and-blue… Read More
IL LEE: Ballpoint Drawings at Queens Museum of Art
July 19, 2007artnet
Large-format blue and black ink drawings, including a 50-foot installation by the Korean-born, Brooklyn-based artist Read More
IL LEE: Ballpoint Abstractions at San Jose Museum of Art
July 07, 2007San Francisco Chronicle
I wish I had seen sooner the stirring show of abstractions by Korean-born New York artist Il Lee at the San Jose Museum of Art. It ends Sunday. More than 20 years ago Lee, now in his… Read More
Whirls Enough And Time, IL LEE does wonders with a humble ballpoint pen
April 12, 2007metroactive.com
Artist IL Lee doesn't need sable-hair brushes and hand-ground pigments. The Korean-born artist, who has lived and worked in New York since 1977, chose another path in 1981, when he… Read More
Beauty in Ballpoint: Distinctive Doodles by Il Lee
April 01, 2007San Jose Mercury News
Lee has played with lines like a composer noodling away on a piano. After more than 20 years of such playing, he has expanded to complex symphonies of powerful visual notes: "BL-060"… Read More
Jean Shin: TEXTile
March 01, 2007Art Asia Pacific
TEXTile (2006), the exhibition's centerpiece, is a 25-foot long interactive tapestry made from over 20,000 computer keycaps, transcribing e-mail correspondence between the artist and… Read More