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SEUNG-MIN LEE’S “LIGHT WHITE”
BY PETER BROCK
March 26, 2021
Critical Review of Solo Exhibition "Light White"
ARTNEWS
CONSUMER REPORTS: SEUNG-MIN LEE
March 1, 2019 1:48pm
Seung-Min Lee is a New York-based artist who has staged work at venues including the Kitchen, Performance Space New York, and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn. Lee will be performing at Human Resources during this year’s L.A. Art Book Fair and will be participating in a symposium at the CUNY Graduate Center for the March 28 launch of Issue 11 of Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture, “BLOOD AND EARTH AND SOIL.”
In one week, Lee consumes plenty of media—everything from public radio to studio visits to Dennis Rodman’s Twitter account. There are reflections on Howard Stern’s role in the artist’s personal 9/11 narrative, the New Brunswick, New Jersey sandwich scene, and the Satanic Temple. Plus, a trip to the West Village art mainstay tapas bar Spain and the legendary Brooklyn punk warehouse 538 Johnson. All that plus much more, below! —John Chiaverina
THE NEW YORKER
“ON WHITENESS” ANDREA K. SCOTT
August 3, 2018
Since kicking off in late June, this ambitious citywide venture, organized by the Racial Imaginary Institute, has encompassed a symposium, an artists’ residency, a documentary studio, a film series, a performance program, a reading group, and a cookout. (There’s even a mixtape, available at the gallery 47 Canal.) The vital group show at the heart of it all considers whiteness as a kind of narcissistic disorder—lacking empathy and paranoid about losing power, despite being malignantly powerful—in the works of seventeen artists whose racial diversity is a canny curatorial gambit. Tone varies from comic (Cindy Sherman’s portraits of desperately age-defying women, Seung-Min Lee’s wildly entertaining mockumentary about milk) to soulful (Native Art Department International’s video of a ceremonial dance performed by Dennis Redmoon Darkeem) to chilling (Ken Gonzales-Day’s vintage image of a crowd at a lynching, digitally altered to remove the victim from the scene). Paul Chan’s quivering trio of rising and falling white-robed figures—a figment achieved with fabric and fans—are cautionary mascots of inflated self-worth and defensive fragility.
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HYPERALLERGIC HOW TO TALK ABOUT WHITENESS BY RYAN WONG
July 23, 2018
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ROBERT BLACKBURN PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP
January 11, 2019
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VIDA. KARAOKE WITH SUPREME LEADER KIM JONG UN BY SARAH WANG
July 3, 2018
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THE GUARDIAN. ART IMITATING LIFE: HOW THIS YEAR'S ARMORY SHOW GOT POLITICAL BY NADYA SAYEJ
March 13, 2018
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July 12, 2025
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