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Austin Lee
at Jeffrey DeitchAustin Lee’s haunting soft-focus paintings are what I imagine my nightmares would look like if rendered in claymation and run through an AI algorithm. The artist’s digital/analog hybrids are creepy—a good kind of creepy, my kind of creepy. In the video Starers (2024), three long-necked creatures gaze at the viewer. The standout works are the video and sculpture. In the center of the gallery lies Blue Fountain (2022-24), a blue figure splayed on his back, its head—impossibly flipped and reversed —spews water from its mouth. The hologram Artist Head Crying Animation (Fan Video) (2024) is giving peak uncanny valley. This exhibition will get under the viewer’s skin and stay there. It cannot be unseen.
Austin Lee: Psychomachia
Jeffrey Deitch
7000 Santa Monica Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90038
On view through October 26, 2024 -
Austin Lee
at Jeffrey DeitchSome shows suck, and some shows barely avoid sucking. Austin Lee seems capable of great things while failing by a long mile. The paintings depict brightly hued, crying, Gumby-like cartoon figures. They are clearly intended to be emotive but fail to elicit emotion; the distortions are too random or formal to create an impact. The paint application is fussy and workman-like, so an accompanying video piece—depicting claymation figures in intense, iridescent light—ironically has more physicality than the paintings or sculptures surrounding it. That video would be mesmerizing if it were less repetitive.
Austin Lee: Psychomachia
Jeffrey Deitch
7000 Santa Monica Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90038
On view through October 26, 2024
