Joyce Tag

Lee’s debut book for cult publisher Baron Books brings together the artist’s most sexually provocative, surreal images Ripe fruit, agape nuns, oysters, Cherry Chapsticks, and pearl necklaces… Joyce Lee’s artworks are fecund with provocative symbolism. Her surrealist assemblages, created using classical watercolour painting and pencil, are holy and profane, uniting elements of high culture with trash, sex, and humour.  While often calling upon overt religious imagery, Lee’s works regularly treats the naked body as a literal landscape upon which other stories unfold. Inspired by Dalí and Magritte alongside her favourite horror movies, the Korean artist sexualises or anthropomorphises seemingly innocuous objects in her ongoing exploration of gender and sexuality. Her scenes are wealthy in...

Lee’s debut book for cult publisher Baron Books brings together the artist’s most sexually provocative, surreal images Ripe fruit, agape nuns, oysters, Cherry Chapsticks, and pearl necklaces… Joyce Lee’s artworks are fecund with provocative symbolism. Her surrealist assemblages, created using classical watercolour painting and pencil, are holy and profane, uniting elements of high culture with trash, sex, and humour.  While often calling upon overt religious imagery, Lee’s works ceaselessly treats the naked body as a literal landscape upon which other stories unfold. Inspired by Dalí and Magritte alongside her favourite horror movies, the Korean artist sexualises or anthropomorphises seemingly innocuous objects in her ongoing exploration of gender and sexuality. Her scenes are wealthy in...