Yujin Lee's "Painting Conversation: Stories of Rice-Thieves" cushion series is a unique reinterpretation of her collaborative art practice. Exclusively available at Iron Velvet Art, each cushion features 18 original paintings made with natural paint on linen. They are adorned with traditional Jeju fabric dyed with persimmon, filled with cotton, and sewn by a Dongmun Market seamstress. Each piece reflects the stories of the participating artists.

This series, part of Lee's ongoing "Painting Conversation" project since 2013, involves artists from Jeju and Fukuoka, who painted together while sharing personal food stories. 

Yujin Lee will donate most of the proceeds from these cushions to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF). This collection offers collectors a chance to own a meaningful piece of art that combines cultural dialogue with social impact.

Size

32 x 51 cm (12 1/2 x 20 inches)

Material

Patched with traditional Jeju fabric dyed with persimmon / synthetic cotton fillings

Year

Painting done in 2023/Cushion made in 2024

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Yujin Lee (born in 1986 in Daegu, South Korea) is an artist and a collaborator who wears many other hats; she is a writer and translator, a caretaker of land and animals, as well as a host of an alternative artist residency that she began in 2019 at her farmhouse in Jeju Island, South Korea. Lee holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University School of the Arts and a BFA in Painting from Cornell University. Lee’s selected group exhibitions include: Migrating Humans - Homo Migratio, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju (2023); How to Love Many in Many Ways, Iron Velvet, New York (2022); Global Week: Time-Space Resonance, Culturetank, Seoul (2021). She also participated in artist residencies including Art Omi in upstate New York (2022) and organized international exchange projects in partnership with organizations such as Heritage Space in Hanoi, Vietnam (2023) and Void Art Centre in Derry, Northern Ireland (2024).