The centerpiece of the exhibition is the silent giant Yonder Away. The canvas, stretcher bars protruding enough to allow for a sculptural undertone, takes its name from the Casper David Freidrich painting The Wanderer Above the Mists. Lee has reduced Freidrich’s seascape to a beautiful blank snowdrift, inflated its scale to life-size, removed the ‘wanderer’ and put the viewer in his place. The painting becomes a field by which the audience literally moves through, the work is activated by the viewers physical engagement with it – thus becoming an almost performative piece.




Jim Lee received his MFA at the University of Delaware before locating to Brooklyn, NY. He has had several solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe including CRG Gallery, NY; Wooster Art Space, NY; Larry Becker Contemporary, PA; Neuberger Museum of Art, NY; Allston Skirt, MA; and Galerie Markus Winter, Berlin. He currently teaches at Hofstra University and Queens College.