Sora Lee South Korean, b. 1967

Overview
Ottchil Jogako #2, 2018,
Ottchil Jogako #2, 2018,

"I love how small fabric scraps—including discarded ones—can be continuously stitched together to create something entirely new. Another aspect I appreciate is that I can work from home, allowing me to balance my role as an artist with being a wife and mother."

Sora Lee is a Korean textile artist who reinterprets jogakbo, the traditional Korean art of patchwork, through a contemporary visual language. Working with translucent oksa silk and ramie, she cuts, hems and hand-stitches small fragments into intuitive geometric compositions that evoke abstract architecture and stained glass. Her recent works incorporate ottchil, a natural Korean lacquer, applied to fabric repurposed from previously worn ramie hanbok. Through patient, meditative processes, Lee transforms delicate materials into works of quiet presence, intimacy and refinement.

 

Selected public collections include the Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii, USA, and the Museum of Vancouver, Canada.

 

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