Kamarin Lee / Biography
Description: Kamarin Lee is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY.
Keywords: Artist, Kamarin Lee, Brooklyn NY

Kamarin Lee

- Curriculum Virtae

# Biography

Kamarin Lee (b. 1989) recalls the aggressive tonalities of New York City in their historical and anecdotal representations. It is an exploration of identity, subculture, and experience in his childhood neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. The artist employs salvaged objects, secondary advertising and expressionistic brushwork to examine power as an institutional force. In this way, compositional and surface elements wrestle with one other on the surface plane for supremacy, remarking Foucault's philosophy on how one's subjectivity and identity moves through space. Pedestrian experiences and environmental aesthetics such as graffiti and abandoned space are evoked, allowing the paintings to draw on an allegory of New York City life then and now.
Kamarin Lee lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.