Karen Lee Art

 ONE

About the Artwork

‘One’, a video installation that explores the one-ness of the Earth and Moon, regarding, influencing and transforming each other in a single, dynamic system. This unity - together in equilibrium - and duality - ever-changing in tension - creates a balance in energy and influence which directly intersects with the Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang, where light and dark are both separate, and also come together into one, an eternal system of renewal where opposing energies work together to create harmony and balance.

This artwork consists of a dual-screen video installation, composed of near-live video, data-driven animation and pre-rendered animation.

The Exhibition

This artwork was exhibited at the Passage of Night; Luminary Rising show at the Chatswood Artspace on the Concourse, February, 2024. The theme examines the significance of the moon and how it is reflected across cultures. Often an object of wonder and contemplation, the moon is a unifying force that brings communities together. For most, the moon is a mythical entity that lends itself to the creation of symbolic meanings that support the human explanation of life, and in many cases, the after-life and otherworldliness. Through the mediums of drawing, installation, sculpture and video animation, this group of artists share stories across cultures, with the universality of the moon at its centre.

Artists: Frankie Chow, Maryanne Coutts, Carmen Glynn-Braun, Emma Hicks, Karen Lee, Lindy Lee, Pamela Leung, Lawrence Liang and Jordan Ritchie, Miho Watanabe and Meng-Yu Yan. Curated by Cassandra Hard- Lawrie and Rachael Kiang.

NEAR LIVE UPDATES

During the exhibition, the video will be updated with new weather patterns from other parts of the world via The International Space Station, Nasa, as well as other filmed footage.

CREDITS

NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA; Live High-Definition Views from the International Space Station (Official NASA Stream), TIm Parsons - drone footage and Raspberry-Pi Programming.

About the Artist

Karen Lee is a Sydney-based artist and designer who works with digital media, drawings, prints, paint, installations and video.  She has exhibited in group shows in Sydney and Melbourne and has received various commissions, including Willoughby City Council Fairfield City Council and CSIRO. She finished her Master of Fine Arts at NSW Art and Design in 2019. Most recently she participated in four group exhibitions at Art Space on The Concourse; in 2023 Inner Edge Drifting and in 2022 - Parallel Wanderings, Stretch and Cities Foretold. She is also a finalist in the 2023 and 2024 Ravenswood Womens Art Prize.

In her work, Karen uses abstraction to respond to a theme or idea creating abstract representations of what we see, feel, experience and remember, using form, colour, light, geometry and motion. She combines digital and tactile media via her process of abstraction to create spaces for the viewer's imagination and memory.