Ellee SY Lee

Ellee SY Lee is a Korean-Canadian visual artist living in Toronto. She makes imaginary paintings that oscillate between abstraction and representation, exploring forms, mark-making, perspectives, and painting styles. She finds inspiration in a wide range of sources: personal memories, nature, philosophical notions of the Eastern and Western, scientific views on the world, and other artworks like that of Post-impressionism, Spiritual abstraction, Post-pop landscapes, and more. The strange aspect of painting which gives a sense of connectivity and sensibility keeps fascinating her. She aims at creating a painterly space that can be mystical, reflective, expansive, and healing. Moreover, through painting, she embraces naturalness, simplicity, and spontaneity, hoping that her works can offer a vicarious escape and temporary respite from a fatiguing and monotonous world.