A tour-group traveler posing in front of the Empire State Building; a junkie punk jonesing on a dirty park bench; a mail-order bride photographed standing beside her snaggletoothed, shotgun-toting redneck husband -- Nikki S. Lee is all of these people, and then some.
The chameleonlike Lee, 30, uses elaborate makeup andwardrobe to assume an incredible array of personas in the themed self-portrait photographs that are her art. An exhibition of what the New York-based morph artist terms her "Projects" is now in at one of Tokyo's most consistently interesting contemporary art spaces, Gallery Gan on the Ginza strip.
The show features about 20 largish color prints, selections from work Lee has done over the last three years.