Mike Lee populates his monochromatic paintings with simple, rounded, faceless figures adrift in flat white and gray fields. The subjects—whose shapes the artist has likened to sausages—variously pose in either spare solitude or in intimate communion with one another. They reflect the artist’s background in animation; while Lee’s subjects appear to be modeled in a digital environment, they’re actually rendered in graphite or oil. The artist received his BFA in 2006 from the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and has exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Berlin, among other cities. Lee has also made sculptures and collectible figurines in the same rounded, voluminous style.

Mike Lee

American

Main

Artist

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Lonely Boy