Kakyoung Lee

Kakyoung Lee

As a printmaker, drypoint is my favorite medium. I have studied printmaking since 1993. I have had numerous shows with lots of prints and drawings, including from traditional prints to life size installations using cutout prints, artist books, and even slide shows with etchings. I had also created many childrens’ books with etchings and drypoints. When I came to New York to study bookmaking in 2001, I wanted to stretch the limit of artists’ books, and tried to make something new to me; moving images using prints and drawings. At the beginning, I started with a sort of stop motion using graphite and charcoals like Kentridge’s films. Then, I wanted to have the texture of sharp drypoint lines in the moving images, so expanded the concept of moving image on a fragile Plexiglas. At the same time adding layer after layer of recent history of an everyday image, the individual marks of the past are gradually disappearing just like in our daily lives.