Gallery SATORI is pleased to present Ins & Outs, a two person exhibition with Zaun Lee and Suzanne Song. The artists explore spatial compositions using geometric constructs that alternately protrude and recede creating illusions of space that build surface tension and at times collapse into ?atness. Utilizing various quadrilateral shapes Lee and Song construct and deconstruct visual logic to create ambiguous, graceful, and

Zaun Lee uses multiple perspectives often utilized in traditional Asian landscape paintings to create epistemic landscapes out of Lego blocks. By randomly connecting the Lego blocks on superimposed layers of translucent acrylic Lee creates a blurred sense of distance that pushes and pulls against the painted surface. The inner and outer spaces fold and unfold onto themselves creating ambiguous spaces that refer to

Suzanne Song’s paintings present a formal investigation about space and perception stemming from the notion of duality. Using perspective and shading as well as the materiality of the wooden panel and canvas support Song creates multifaceted spatial trompe l’oeils. Visual logic is constantly built up and then de-constructed as the geometric patterns advance and retreat in complex rhythmic con?gurations. Each perceptual condition is juxtaposed with another that simultaneously contradicts and compliments each other creating an interwoven space that is at once visceral and

Zaun Lee received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 2004 and a BA in Philosophy from Alfred University in 2002. She has also studied Visual Communications Design at Seoul National University in Korea. Lee’s honors include awards from the AHL Foundation and HanYang Cultural Foundation as well as being the ?nalist for Kumho Young Artist Award at the Kumho Museum of Art. Some of her group exhibition venues include the Dumbo Arts Center, Gana Art Gallery, Lumenhouse, Artists Space, National Arts Club, Gallery Korea, AG Gallery, Sputnik Gallery, Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery at NJCU, SQFT Gallery in Nashville, and Ssamzie Space Studio 401 in Seoul, Korea.

Suzanne Song received her MFA from Yale School of Art, Yale University in 2000 and a BFA from Clemson University in 1997. She has had numerous exhibitions throughout the United States including solo exhibitions at Caren Golden Fine Art and Michael Steinberg Fine Art and group exhibitions at The Drawing Center, Smack Mellon, Richard Levy Gallery, Anna Kustera Gallery and Paik Hye Young gallery in Seoul. Song’s acco- lades include the Smack Mellon Studio Fellowship and the George R. Bunker Award at Yale. Suzanne Song is a New York Foundation of Arts Fellow in Painting (2008).