Not For Squares

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Bovey Lee felt a spe­cial con­nec­tion to the fad­ing Chinese folk art of paper-cutting. Her work, using impossibly thin rice paper, is obscenely intric­ate and utterly beautiful.

Bovey Lee, “Spine”, 2007

Bovey Lee, “The But­ter­fly Gown”, 2010

Bovey Lee, “Tsunami-Enmeshed”, 2008

Bovey Lee, “Tsunami-Enmeshed”, 2008

Bovey Lee, “Atomic Jelly­fish”, 2007

(pho­tos cour­tesy of Beau­ti­ful Decay)

Bovey is cur­rently a full-time artist based in Pitt­s­burgh. Her works have been exhib­ited at the Brook­lyn Museum of Art;  Museum Belle­rive, Zurich; National Glass Centre, UK; Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing; Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan; Hong Kong Museum of Art; and Museum Rijswijk, The Netherlands.

Bovey’s art is rep­res­en­ted by Grotto Fine Arts Gal­lery in Hong Kong.

Do visit her web­site to see her enorm­ous col­lec­tion of work. Amazing!

Tags: art, Bovey Lee, Chinese folk art, Coulson Macleod, Grotto Fine Arts Gallery, Hong Kong, paper artist, paper craft, paper cutouts, rice paper

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