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Article: Bing Lee at Sigma.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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At first glance, this exhibition of graphite drawings by the Chinese artist Bing Lee suggested a room full of rebuses. The square, emblematic images, neatly arranged in four horizontal rows, traversed all four walls of the gallery. Each drawing contained a single motif, realized on crinkled rice paper against a black graphite ground. They included stylized human figures, masks, household furniture, landscape elements, elaborate hats and abstract geometric forms based on Chinese characters.
Grouped together in arrangements of twos, threes and fours, the clustered images teased the viewer to construct some kind of larger meaning. But although one might imagine ...