The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 13, 2025

Print with frenetic black strands of ink coating a central column of the white page. Within the frenzy of black strands stands the silhouette of a woman facing our right, arms held out by her sides and chin-length strands of hair swishing around her face. Facing the opposite direction, a fainter silhouette bends down, cutting in to the white space on the left of the print, hair swishing down, in front of her face.

Dance, Dance, Dance. #5

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: 54.3 x 39 cm (21 3/8 x 15 3/8 in.); Platemark: 14.8 x 25.6 cm (5 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Jo Hershey Selden Fund 2013.22.5
© 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/2013.22.5