The Artist

I grew up playing and exploring with paper crafts. Drawing, cutting, and folding paper pop-up cards and origami were some of my favourite pastimes. In Model Home, a collage assemblage of the important belongings one has in one's home to furnish a community home in this sculpture. The objects will be placed in three, life-size, pop-up rooms. This artwork not only captures the foldout forms and silhouettes of these objects but also the process of making. The cutouts from the material from which the objects are created are left as traces on the walls between each room. The overall effect is a highly layered and open work of a -strangely familiar- new environment.

The artist, Jyhling Lee is professional artist, teacher, and active contributor to the cultural community. Her practice is engaged with public art, public spaces, and projects for the civic realm.

Her studio is focused on enhancing the socially enabling qualities of the built environment, as well as the integration contemporary design influences between the creative arts, design, and architecture. Her working process attempts to bring together collaborators, including clients, design professionals, government officials, and community members. The resulting works are those which seek to meaningfully enhance the experience and enrich the civic imagination of a specific place.

The projects of the studio have been recognized through awards and publications regionally and nationally. The studio is based in Toronto.