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The William Havu Gallery presents Changing Shapes, a solo exhibition by Korean artist Hyunmee Lee. After three years of research, experimentation and personal exploration, Hyunmee Lee's artistic path has blossomed into this new series of vibrant paintings. While these paintings draw on her past series, she unleashes a powerful sense of newfound freedom in the abstract shapes, lines and meditative gestures that emerge from these canvases. The dominant shape, often a vivid yellow, stands alongside her traditional use of black and reflects the dongbaek, a Korean camellia.

"Black has …