Vancouver artist Hanna Lee Joshi's work lands on the cover of international art magazine
The Emily Carr University grad’s I’m a little shy … but that’s ok featured in the current issue of Hi-Fructose
I’m a little shy … but that’s ok by Hanna Lee Joshi.
CHECK OUT THE current issue of Hi-Fructose: The New Contemporary Art Magazine and you’ll see a faceless female form in vivid hues of red, blue, purple, and green. The image is called I’m a little shy … but that’s ok and it’s by local artist Hanna Lee Joshi.
Founded by artists Attaboy and Annie Owens, Hi-Fructose is a quarterly print publication distributed worldwide. It purports to go “beyond the comfort zone of the ‘alternative’ norm to deliver a diverse cross section of the most influential, genre bending art of our time as well as breaking new and amazing talents”.
Joshi is a Korean-Canadian artist whose practice focuses on depictions of the female form. “Her work currently explores the search for autonomy within and themes of individuality and how it relates to the universal identity,” her website notes.
According to ECU, Joshi completed I’m a little shy … but that’s ok, a gouache and coloured-pencil work on paper, in 2020 for a group show at San Francisco’s Spoke Art gallery. It’s part of an ongoing series in which each image is a kind of self-portrait that often reflects “personal aspects of my life including themes of autonomy, taking up space and dismantling inner boundaries that I put up for myself”, Joshi told ECU’s Perrin Grauer.
Being on the cover of Hi-Fructose had Joshi feeling “beyond excited”.
“It’s a surreal moment as I remember reading this magazine in university and never in my wildest dreams thought I’d grace it’s [sic] pages,” Joshi said on Instagram. “I’m in the publication with some of the biggest legendary artists.”
Among the other names in the 124-page 59th edition are Yuko Shimizu, Yayoi Kusama, and Alex Grey.
More information about Joshi can be found at https://hannaleejoshi.com/.
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