[KS] New art exhibition: Paper from Korea, China, Japan

[Aimee Lee]

I wanted to share that an exhibition that I am part of is open now at 
Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum. Fibers of Becoming 
<https://amam.oberlin.edu/exhibitions-events/exhibitions/2025/07/29/fibers-of-becoming-contemporary-paper-works-by-sarah-brayer-aimee-lee-and-lin-yan> features 
three artists working with three East Asian paper types to create 
contemporary art. Original art is featured alongside videos about each 
artist and our practice. My hanji dresses 
<https://aimeelee.net/hanji-dresses/> are included as well as a new 
large format artists' book 
<https://aimeelee.net/sample-book-series-iii/> using hanji and indigo.

 From the show introduction, curated by Kevin Greenwood, Joan L. 
Danforth Curator of Asian Art:

At the intersection of tradition and innovation, Sarah Brayer, Aimee 
Lee, and Lin Yan transform handmade paper into powerful expressions of 
cultural memory and contemporary identity. Each artist works within 
distinct East Asian papermaking traditions—Brayer with Japanese /washi/, 
Lee with Korean /hanji/, and Lin with Chinese /Xuanzhi/—yet all three 
engage in a meditative dialogue between ancient craft and modern vision. 
Their works embody the paradoxical nature of paper—seemingly delicate 
yet remarkably resilient, characteristics that create a powerful metaphor.

Through their hands, the medium of paper allows space for improvisation 
and renewal, while remaining a vessel of remembrance and tradition. 
Whether through Brayer’s metaphysical contemplations and fluid 
compositions, created as the wet fibers coalesce on a screen, Lee’s 
exploration of self and community through engagement with harvested 
materials and labor-intensive methods, or Lin’s reflection on the 
fleeting quality of time and memory by recording the physical texture of 
architecture in sculpted paper, these artists demonstrate how paper—with 
its ability to hold both history and possibility in its fibers—can be a 
catalyst for becoming something completely new.

https://amam.oberlin.edu/exhibitions-events/exhibitions/2025/07/29/fibers-of-becoming-contemporary-paper-works-by-sarah-brayer-aimee-lee-and-lin-yan

The exhibit is open through May 24, 2026. I will present an artist talk 
on the Thurs evening, Nov 6, 2025.

I hope you can visit!
Aimee
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aimeelee.net
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