Lee Junock

Lee Junock is a painter whose practice revolves around reexamining personal memory—particularly her father’s labor as a fisherman and the surrounding objects—through a poetic and visual language. While rooted in her own familial history, her work extends toward a broader reflection on marginalized individuals in society, such as migrant women, silent resistors, and those whose voices are often overlooked. Boats, tools, and objects like ice boxes—recurring motifs in her paintings—serve not merely as still lifes, but as vessels of emotion and memory. In her Night Walk series, roadside weeds and silhouettes emerge as metaphors for the resilience and dignity of the silenced. Lee primarily works in oil and acrylic on canvas, using layered brushstrokes or matte textures to evoke the lingering sensations of memory and emotional resonance. Her painterly forms often blur and fade, suggesting a visual language attuned to impermanence and fragmentation. More recently, she has shifted her focus to the materiality of painting and the compositional structure of images. Moving beyond narrative, she explores rhythm, form, and surface as a way to weave emotion into the very fabric of the canvas. For Lee, painting is not only a means of revisiting what is disappearing but also a way of drawing marginalized lives into a space of shared recognition and silent solidarity.