Oh Mee Lee
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Art History
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Premodern Chinese art and art history
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Chinese calligraphy
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Medieval texts and historiography
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Canon formation
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East Asian art
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Korean painting
236 Borland Bldg
University Park
- Email opl5066@psu.edu
Biography
Oh Mee Lee specializes in medieval Chinese painting, calligraphy, and texts. Focusing on specific qualities of ink and brush, her research examines the non-verbal and non-visual shifts from writing calligraphy to painting ever-variable ink washes, texture strokes, and outlined accents. By extension, Oh Mee explores the contrasting relationship between painted figures and the implied experience of landscape as translated onto paper. In her newest project, she delves into the signification of cut-outs in early East Asian ceramics, their construction methods, reused materials, and edited forms.
Dr. Lee’s teaching showcases materials and production, as well as individual objects, their use, and the layers of reflections upon them in introductory courses on Asian art and Buddhist art, as well as seminars on Japanese woodblock prints, premodern Chinese art, the Literary Arts of China, and Korean art. She particularly enjoys mentoring undergraduate student research and creative exploratory academic projects.