Jessica Lee
Jessica Lee’s “Growing Pains” probes the space between childlike naïveté and post-regressive adult consciousness. Lee destabilizes maturation and regression as they appear in animal and cultural symbolism; these layers of innocence and world-weariness seek engagement with the contradictions of lived experience. Lee’s work echoes through the complexities of growth by deconstructing the very idea of self-formation. Employing low-quality materials, Lee derives a tension between adult critique and youthful expression, questioning the boundaries between fine art and child’s play.