Michelle Jane Lee is a Korean-American painter based in Los Angeles. Born in Seoul and trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her work has been shown across Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Taipei, and beyond over the past two decades.

Lee works within a formal language of grids, coded shapes, and restrained color — a personal system in which structure carries emotional weight. The compositions are tightly controlled — what they express is anything but.

Writing about the works featured on Platform, Lee notes:“In particular the Skin Contact series was a response to the early days of the pandemic-induced isolation. Clothing holds onto memories and people, using t-shirts from past lovers and friends, or used bedsheets with an ex, these paintings become relics of bodily contact.Somewhere between Agnes Martin’s meditative restraint and Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s quiet devastations, the work holds love and distance in tension. It dwells in what is unsaid, in the charge of almost-touching.”