Kyunglim Lee creates artwork with corrugated cardboard. Having majored in oriental painting. Her paintings are part 3D sculptures, made with resin on paper. Corrugated cardboard is an inevitable by-product of modern mass production and transportation systems. Cardboard, with winding symmetrical curves on its surface, stands for its necessary usage in today’s commercial society as a reliable packaging medium. In her work, cardboard that has tacitly and humorlessly finished its role as containers, protectors, and transporters of mass-produced goods symbolize a regeneration and a revival. In fact, she feels limited when it comes to using colors as a sole medium of expressing textures. Instead, she cut and formed soft and attractive cardboard into small pieces and attached them together before adding the color and creating a sense of a sculpted paper form.
Her work has been showcased in Seoul, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, Miami, Seattle and Houston. She has participated in numerous art fairs, and exhibitions. She has a BFA in Oriental Painting from the College of Fine Arts of Seoul National University. She resides in Queens, New York, where she works as a full-time artist. Currently attending Continuing Education at Queensborough Community College.