Korean-Canadian artist Tim Lee assumes the starring roles in ten recent works that take a deadpan yet revealing look at pop culture and musical virtuosity. In Untitled (James Osterberg, 1970), Lee utilizes simple trick photography to re-create an outlandish backbend made famous by Osterberg (aka Iggy Pop). With Untitled (Neil Young, 1968), the artist uses skewed angles and sight gags to create a photographic diptych of himself as Young, levitating horizontal to the floor, with two feet on the wall, through the power of a wicked guitar cord. Aria: Goldberg Variations, a two-channel video installation, features Lee, a musical layman, deftly playing the Bach composition; the herky-jerky editing accentuates the piecemeal quality of the performance. Through low-tech mimicry, Lee humorously teases out subtle perceptual and cultural subtexts in historic pop-culture moments.

-Lisa L. Powell