Helen Lee
Position title: Associate Professor, Art Department. Helen Burish Faculty Fellowship
- 2020-21 Update
- Lee was able to sustain an active exhibition record, garnered some external honors, and founded a nonprofit organization that supports glass education. Her work was included in three exhibitions held in Chicago, New York, and Tallinn, Estonia. Learn more
As an artist, Lee examines the morphological nature of language. She is interested in how language inherently changes — over time, across cultures, and in physical form. Lee reifies her bilingual experience as a second generation Chinese-American in a fluid material that similarly embodies a state of flux. Lee states, “I write in glass, which is to say that I write in light, and I write in shadow.”