Once Again My Autumn Lamp

/public reception: November 19, 7 to 9 pm

/visits: November 20–29, 2025

/presented artist: Ailyn Lee

141 Flushing Ave, Building 77 - Unit 1324A, Brooklyn

Once Again My Autumn Lamp

Artist: Ailyn Lee
Curator: Colleen Dalusong

Once Again My Autumn Lamp presents new drawings, sculptures, and a short film by Ailyn Lee. The exhibition explores the body and found objects as vessels of memory, vulnerability, and desire. Drawing inspiration from her grandmother’s antique shop and guided by Surrealist automatism, Lee transforms discarded materials and dream imagery into poetic meditations on transformation and resilience.

The exhibition is part of Uncool Gallery’s Solo Show Open Call program, which supports artists through curated solo exhibitions and digital features.

Press it, 2023, wooden sofa leg, bronze doorbell and button, music box, 35mm film, string, wood screw, stone clay, acrylic, pigment, epoxy, 13 × 8 × 3 inches

Good Shoes Take You to Good Places (video), 2022, short film, 5:53 min

First Drawer : Smoking Room, 2025, pastel, colored pencil, nobang silk, wood stain, drawer handle, lock and key on engraved panel, 16×20×2 inches

Girlhood, 2023, steel pan, champagne glass, ponytail, butterfly hair clip, rhinestone, pearl bead, stone clay, acrylic, pigment, epoxy, compass, 13 × 10 × 10 inches

Butterfly Infirmary, 2025, stone clay, acrylic, pastel, ceramic teeth, mother of pearl, Hanji paper, thread, gauze, needle, glass beads, wooden drawer, wooden stool, IV line, ink, epoxy, 10 × 10 × 8 inches

Third Drawer : Secret Vanity, 2025, Secret Vanity 2025, pastel, colored pencil, nobang silk, wood stain, drawer handle, key on engraved panel, 16×20×2 inches

Installation and Performance

On November 19, 2025, Ailyn Lee activated her installation for Once Again, My Autumn Lamp with a focused live performance inside the gallery. The environment, light, and images created an intimate setting in which themes of memory, ritual, and embodied presence could unfold. Her performance introduced a temporal layer to the work, shaping the atmosphere that remained in the space after the activation.

Performance detail. Uncool Gallery

Installation shot. Garrett Carroll

Reception. @doraxung

Artist Bio

Ailyn Lee (b. 1994, South Korea) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice merges drawing, sculpture, and film to explore memory, vulnerability, and transformation. Drawing inspiration from her childhood spent in her grandmother’s antique shop, Lee works with found objects and intuitive mark-making to reveal the emotional life embedded in material things. Her installations and short films unfold like dream sequences, blending ritual, humor, and intimacy to question how objects carry traces of human desire and time.

Lee earned her BFA and MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work has been exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery, HERE Arts Center, the Wassaic Project, and Visionary Projects, among others. She has been awarded residencies at ISCP, the Wassaic Project, Kunstraum, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her practice has been featured in Artconnect, Art Seen Magazine, Suboart Magazine, and Artsin Square.

Once Again My Autumn Lamp is Uncool Gallery’s Fall 2025 solo exhibition, selected through our open call.

Each season, one solo show and nine featured artists are presented as part of our ongoing commitment to emerging and critically engaged practices.

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