sacred
12.08 - DAC, Denver CO
Opening reception December 4th, 6-8p
1301 Glenarm Street - Denver CO
right: Unicorn - Viet Nam (detail); watermedia
& collage with rusted raw silk & tribal weavings,
6.08 |
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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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react
C. Emerson Fine Arts - St Petersburg, FL
- ritual - confined
shrine - torched angels
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"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
right - torched angel, detail - mixed media
on blow torched collage 2008
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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forest
Exploring the effects
of global warming
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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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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