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Myanmar
Depicting Buddhist shrines in Myanmar which
are kept locked in steel cages as a reflection of the severity
of the current regime.
Series of multi media works on paper developed
at the Ragdale Foundation, 2.08
view confined shrine paintings
right: confined shrine - xerograph &
watercolor on collage, 2008 |
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From
Cradle to Grave
Two spring benefits
The
Cradle Project
The Cradle Project is a fundraising art installation
designed to represent the plight of the estimated 48 million
children who have been orphaned by disease and poverty in
sub-Saharan Africa. Our Mission is to promote awareness and
raise financial support to help feed, shelter, and educate
these children.
Opening Reception: June 7 12:00 - 5:00pm
Show Dates: June 8-28
219 Central NW, Albuquerque, NM
The Mask Project
Benefiting end of life
care provided by The Denver Hospice
Online Auction: May 1 - May 30, 2008
Mask Gala: May 31, 7:30 p.m. Cherry Creek Shopping Center,
Denver
right:
top: detail of "The Green Man" mask: silk, earth
& gesso, 2008
bottom: "Cradle": Baby carriage, decimated
burlap, bovine bones, barbed wire, string, gesso and bird
who dies while trapped in a chimney, 2008
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C
Emerson Fine Arts
react
4.08 - St Petersburg, FL
- ritual - confined
shrine - torched angels
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right - torched angel, detail - mixed
media on blow torched collage 2008
"Lee Lee was born in Colorado and
still lives there, but she has a broad world view shaped by
her travels. Works from several series created after visits
to Cuba, Myanmar (also known as Burma) and India, for example,
address social issues she encountered in each country. Yet
they are more observations of conditions than politically
loaded statements. The "Torched Angels" series came
from a visit to Havana graveyards. She photographed angel
statues and transformed them into dense mixed media pieces
on paper. A partial meltdown by a blowtorch renders them battered
but still intact, like so much of the country in which the
statues reside. A single, new work shows her drafting skill:
a drawing of a woman Lee met in Bosnia whose son is a combat
medic. The mother is surrounded by scorched paper (the artist
likes singeing her surfaces a lot) and fabric fragments that
give her the appearance of being in the middle of an exploding
bomb. Her expression remains impassive; the violence is a
future fear playing out in her mind. Gallery owner Lori Johns
says that this is the first in a new series Lee will be showing
later in the year."
- From the review, Eight artists offer
'React,' an eclectic show at C. Emerson Fine Arts by
Lennie Bennett, St Petersburg Times Art Critic - 4.8.8
the
human condition
9.08 - C Emerson Fine Arts, St Petersburg, FL
right - Vrnda - mixed media on burnt collage
Proud mother of my Sergeant Combat Medic OIF Vet
"Love, peace & prayers for the middle east."
END THE WAR NOW!!!
"I join with my sisters in every land in the Pax Materna
- a permanent declaration of peace that transcends our ideological
differences. In the nuclear shadow, war is obsolete. I will
no longer suffer in silence nor sustain it by complicity.
They shall not send my son to fight another mother's son.
For now, forever, there is no mother who is enemy to another
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sacred
Work that explored sacred rituals and shrines from around
the world
To be exhibited at the DAC, Denver 12.08
right: Ganga, India - color photograph:
source material being developed for the "sacred"
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forest
Exploring the effects
of global warming on forests
To be exhibited at C Emerson Fine Art, St Petersburg FL, 10.09
view recent work - pine
- regarding the impact of beetle kill on Colorado lodgepole
pines.
view spring aspen studies
right:
source material for series of oil on shotgunned panel paintings
of the current state of aspen in Colorado. 2007 |
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Three generations of women in the echoes of war in Bosnia.
This work focuses on displacement and nostalgia as it explores
the continuing impacts of a war that happened over a decade
ago.
Developed during a residency at the Vermont
Studio Center, 1.08
right: collapsed home in Vares, watercolor
on woodblock, 2008 |
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weave
These figurative paintings are the result of travels through
China, Myanmar and South Carolina. Capturing weavers in their
daily rituals, the paintings blend woman with machine in a
celebration of the ancient art and a contemplative measure
of the gains and losses of our global times.
release
right:
spin - China; oil on linen
weave - Myanmar; oil on
canvas
lintheads - South Carolina;
xerography, pencil, conte & tarpaper on burnt collage
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