Taiwan ink artist Lee Chun-yi - Review of his solo exhibition in Hong Kong

Review of the first solo exhibition of Taiwan ink artist Lee Chun-yi in Hong Kong.
Alisan Fine Arts gallery will present a recent selection of his traditionally inspired landscapes and scholar rocks created by unique stamping and rubbing technique. This exhibition draws particular attention to the classical reference of Lee’s practice, including landscape, calligraphy, carving, and poetry, and the fusion of these timeless elements into a revolutionary style often interpreted as photorealist, and universally as contemporary.

Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1965, Lee Chun-yi moved to Hong Kong at the age of five. He studied painting under acclaimed ink master Liu Kuo-sung, a founder of the Fifth Moon Group and continuing leader in the Chinese contemporary ink movement, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lee later completed a master’s degree in art at Tunghai University, Taiwan in 1997, before pursuing doctoral studies in Chinese Art History at Arizona State University in the United States, and eventually returning to Taiwan to develop his artistic practice.