KYLE LEE
NEW MOON

FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 29, 2025

OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2025
5-8 PM

ON VIEW
FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 29, 2025

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PRESS

Chefas Projects is pleased to present New Moon, an exhibition of new paintings by Kyle Lee. Through quiet, intimate scenes illuminated by the light of the moon, Lee’s paintings touch themes of memory and place to explore an anticipatory anxiety that lies just below the surface. This exhibition marks Lee’s first time showing with the gallery.

Washed in the rich blues and purples brought only by a winter’s midnight moon, New Moon pulls its viewers into scenes of in-between spaces: an open door that leads to a darkened room; an empty kitchen with a lonely pot still on the stove; figures with backs turned or distant gazes that look beyond what is present. And in these quiet and intimate moments, we are left wondering about the things these places hold – the memories buried within them along with the uncertain anxiety of wondering if it will be possible to return to them. Yet at the same time, Lee’s paintings push us to also wonder about what comes next: both the midnight hour and the new moon mark the ending of one cycle and the beginning of a brand new one. Dwelling in this transitional space, each scene in New Moon is a suspended moment caught somewhere between the past and the future, neither here nor there.

The opening reception for New Moon will take place at Chefas Projects on Friday, February 28, 2025, from 5-8 pm. Located in Portland, Oregon, at 134 SE Taylor Street on the first floor of the Taylor Works building, Chefas Projects invites the public to explore this unique exhibition, which will be on view through March 29, 2025.

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