Influential portraits are a collection of artists, musicians, dictators, and religious figures that are prominent figures of our times. Some have positively, others negatively influenced my rhetoric in which shapes who I am today. Some of these portrait paintings have been showcased in Ian Tan Gallery as a solo exhibition as well as privately collected in Superflux Cabana in Victoria, B.C.

Joon Lee

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Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Joon moved to Vancouver in May 2000. His pursuit of experimenting in the arts grows as he explores various mediums from film photography to hand-cut collaging to large scale paintings, using acrylics and oils. “A means to document my existence, not only to record but to prove my time here in the 21st century, is the fundamental reason why I create. While maintaining the stirring, primitive instinct to arrange colour, rhythm, and form in ties to my past and the present, I seek to develop formal relation to expose the anomaly behind the social construct between conventional and abnormal beauty. Though art analyzes its form into intellectual terms (balance, measure, rhythm, and harmony), I create to translate logical thought to feeling, a sense, a mood. Art is here to break the illusion of function and societal norms that demand the very definition of reality.”