Catalog Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College

Sandra Eula Lee: A Map is Not the Territory
Sept 9-Oct 30, 2021
Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College


Full Color Publication
Essays by Kristen Hileman, former Head of Contemporary at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Paul Nicholson, former Director of the Martin Art Gallery
Softcover, 24 pages
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...her works call for an active and visceral consideration of the force and magnitude of the constant of transformation—how change defines what it is to be human and how it manifests in the conditions of our planet. Over the last decade, inspired by residencies and teaching positions that took her to Seoul and Beijing and her own Korean heritage, Lee created garden-like sculptures and installations from construction materials. These formations of bricks, asphalt, electrical wire, and miscellaneous debris in hues that evoke plants, water, stone, and sunlight point to two types of growth—the cultivation of the natural world and the expansion of urban development in Asian cities—as well as the fragile, shifting balance between these interdependent kinds of flux...