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Austin Lee, New York artist

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AUSTIN LEE, FEELS GOOD, JEFFREY DEITCH, NEW YORK, 2019.





Austin Lee is New Yorker based artist that smashed together" abstraction and figuration, humor and pathos, in his exuberantly expressive and utterly contemporary paintings and sculptures" (artsy.net).  I was intrigued by the vibrant, neon colors and silly contemporary paintings. What is nice to hear is his artwork is traveling to an art museum, M Woods, Beijing, China the exhibition "Human Nature". As well as three new commissioned sculptures. 

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