Liam Lee

Patrick Parrish Gallery is proud to present Catch and Release, Liam Lee’s debut solo exhibition inspired by the ephemera of creation and the perplexing poetry of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface.

Known for phantasmagorical furniture constructed from felted merino wool, Lee is an NYC-based artist and designer whose work takes surrealist shape through creative instinct, technical improvisation, and a deep sensitivity to the power of sense-memory. As a self-taught artist, Lee’s practice employs labor-intensive craft techniques in often unexpected ways that push the material and formal boundaries of his work. Speaking with his own formal vocabulary, Lee’s pieces are drenched in color and play with texture, materiality, and scale in order to provoke viewers to reconsider how we relate to the objects within our homes.

Lee’s inaugural showcase welcomes new materials and methods into his aesthetic repertoire, continuing his signature felt furniture and tapestries while introducing glazed ceramics, works on paper, and crocheted wire light sculptures.

Liam Lee (b. 1993) is an American artist and designer based in New York. With a focus on furniture and textiles that are sculpted from hand-dyed and hand-felted wool, Lee’s work is concerned with the dissolution of the boundary between interior and exterior space, between man-made objects, and what constitutes the ‘natural’ environment.

Lee's work has been shown by Patrick Parrish Gallery at Salon Art & Design and at FOG Design + Art, by Objective Gallery at Nomad Circle, Art021 Shanghai, and Design Miami Shanghai, by Kazerne in Eindhoven, NL, and at Make Hauser and Wirth. Lee’s work was recently nominated as a finalist for the 2023 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize. Lee’s work can also be found in Architectural Digest, Curbed, Wallpaper*, Dwell Magazine, Design Anthology, Surface Magazine, and at the Noguchi Museum shop.

Lee received his BA in English Literature from the University of Chicago in 2015.