Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 2

Jin Lee
Untitled (Head Series #2)

1994

$600
£451.04
€522.90
CA$837.69
A$938.26
CHF 488.21
MX$11,395.11
NOK 6,189.24
SEK 5,840.01
DKK 3,901.58
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

Gelatin silver print 9.5 x 8 inches This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Price includes framing. In her Untitled Heads series, Jin Lee presents head-and-shoulders profile silhouettes of young women. The identically composed images are photograms made by positioning subject in front of a piece of photographic paper in the darkroom and casting light onto her. The images harken back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century silhouettes, many of which were made in a similar fashion using projected light and a translucent screen to define the outline of a face. Although Lee’s works are traditional in form, they also address a thoroughly contemporary set of concerns. In their typologizing approach, Lee’s images allude to historical attempts to employ photography to categorize, exoticize, or commodify individuals or groups of people. In the most sinister interpretations, her works suggest pseudoscientific attempts to use photography to connect physical characteristics to individual psychology. Clearly, Lee’s images link identity and the body. But her approach also acknowledges the complex and problematic nature of this endeavor. Her blank, white profiles deny the viewer the easy, voyeuristic access to images of female faces and bodies that is common in contemporary media. Instead of celebrating women as icons of beauty or sexuality, Lee’s heads present female identity only in its outline. In a sense, the silhouettes are a type of image that semioticians call empty signifiers. Such signifiers serve as empty screens onto which the viewer can project their own meanings. In their openness to interpretation, Lee’s images demonstrate the difficulty of negotiating the gap between the self and others.
  • Creator:
    Jin Lee
  • Creation Year:
    1994
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU93232989131

More From This Seller

View All
Untitled #85
By Henry Horenstein
Located in New York, NY
Sepia-toned gelatin silver print Signed and numbered, verso 20 x 16 inches, sheet (Edition of 25) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “These are not ...
Category

Early 2000s Other Art Style Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled #69
By Henry Horenstein
Located in New York, NY
Sepia-toned gelatin silver print Signed and numbered, verso 20 x 16 inches, sheet (Edition of 25) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “These are not ...
Category

Early 2000s Other Art Style Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled (Classical Bust II)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Classical Bust II) n.d. Conté crayon on paper 30 x 22 inches Contact gallery for price. This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category

20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Conté

Untitled #8 (from the series "Album")
By Chris Ironside
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper Signed, verso This drawing is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Price includes framing. About the artist: Chris Ironside is a Toronto-based artist wor...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Untitled #91
By Henry Horenstein
Located in New York, NY
Sepia-toned gelatin silver print Signed and numbered, verso 16 x 20 inches, sheet (Edition of 25) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “These are not ...
Category

Early 2000s Other Art Style Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled (XIV)
By Rafael Soldi
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print (Edition of 10) Signed and numbered, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “Life Stand Still Here” explores internal dialogues...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

You May Also Like

Abstract head looking left. From The Head Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
​Whether they are symbols, dreams or marks of the life of each of us. The artist's work often features heads, floating bodies, trees, dollar signs, cars, laurel branches, and symboli...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract head looking right. From The Head Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
​Whether they are symbols, dreams or marks of the life of each of us. The artist's work often features heads, floating bodies, trees, dollar signs, cars, laurel branches, and symboli...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Head Looking Right and Left. From The Head Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
​Whether they are symbols, dreams or marks of the life of each of us. The artist's work often features heads, floating bodies, trees, dollar signs, cars, laurel branches, and symboli...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

OF-Head25
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head19
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

OF-Head20
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic