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 Re: NYT article The Art World’s Next Big Thing: Tiny Paintings. "In both ambition and scale, Lee’s own work is far more modest. She paints in her Brooklyn apartment, where she and her husband, also an artist, sleep in the living room and use their two bedrooms as studios. On jute canvases ranging in size from smaller than a postcard to larger than a sheet of printer paper, she reproduces cropped versions of images that she finds on shopping sites and internet forums: a pair of blue jeans, a club sandwich, a children’s playroom. The jute’s texture makes each panel look pixelated, highlighting the fact that it’s an image of an image. The scale echoes that of the source, squinted at on an iPad screen or laptop. Some of Lee’s most evocative works are around the size of a shower tile. She compares looking at one of her paintings in a gallery to peeking through a keyhole: “I love being able to beckon someone to look at something.”

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Diary entry on-point: 

12/15/2002

Went to custom framing shop to get frame ideas for photo series. They had a tiny 4 x 6 print of a Jackson Pollock painting. I thought it was ironically interesting that someone would even think of doing it—something so huge and textural and culturally significant in a tiny gallery frame with a huge mat—like putting a Chuck Close grid portrait on a postage stamp.