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Collection Online as of February 24, 2026

Print with frenetic black strands of ink coating a central column of the white page. Within the frenzy of black strands is the silhouette of a woman lurching forward, facing our left and bending down, so that she's only in the lower half of the print, her hair flinging forward over her head and left arm bent at her side. Her hair extends to the edge of white space on the print's left side.

Dance, Dance, Dance. #8

2011

Kakyoung Lee

(Korean, b. 1975)
published by

Created and Printed by the artist with the help of Master Printer Tatiana Simonova

America
drypoint
Sheet: 54.6 x 38.9 cm (21 1/2 x 15 5/16 in.); Platemark: 14.4 x 25.4 cm (5 11/16 x 10 in.)
Jo Hershey Selden Fund 2013.22.8
© Kakyoung Lee
Location: 236 Korean

Description

Created by the Seoul- and New York-based artist Kakyung Lee, Dance, Dance, Dance is a suite of ten prints made using drypoint, a printmaking process in which a design is drawn on a plate with a sharp, needle-like instrument. Each print is a self-portrait featuring her repetitive gestural movements. Rather than the traditional copperplate, Lee used a single Plexiglas plate known for its fragile and unforgiving nature, turning her fleeting, mundane, or perhaps frustrating moments into a series of intimate spectacles.
  • 2011–?
    Collection of the Artist
    ?–2013
    (Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2013–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Juxtaposition and Juncture in Korean Modern and Contemporary Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 21, 2025-May 3, 2026).
    Creating Urgency: Modern and Contemporary Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 22-October 23, 2022).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2013.22.8