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Flow

Early Morning Rituals along the Sacred Ganga
Varanasi, India

Millicent Rogers Museum - Taos NM
Opening Reception: February 20th, 5.30-8pm
Exhibit runs until March 31, 2010

right: Flow - watermedia & oxidized copper on handmade Indian paper.

Security
Curated by Stephanie Ellis and Serena Wellen
Reception: March 13, 7-10pm
Exhibition: March 10 - March 27

Security means simply, the provision of safety. Se-curity is related to the oldest meaning of curate: to care for souls. Today the business of security is a global and corporate phenomenon. The primary agenda is the production of fear; the ideal consumer is immobilized by dread. Security, the exhibition, addresses this pivot between asylum and alarm. How we define security for our communities and the world, will determine how we get there and where we arrive.

Vrnda - mother of a Combat Medic in Iraq

ROOT DIVISION
3175 17th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

Right: Vrnda, Mother of a Combat Medic stationed in Iraq - detail: pencil, blood, shotgunned collage & raw silk collage that has been burnt by coals. 2008

Ghat

Early Morning Rituals along the Sacred Ganga
Varanasi, India

Town Hall - Taos, NM
Opening Reception: February 11th, 5-6.30
Exhibit runs until May 2010

right: convergence - watermedia & oxidized copper on handmade Indian paper.

Lee Lee - watercolor of Varanasi India

War is driven by Scarcity

The Sketchbook Project
Art House traveling Library
Individual Theme: Past Present & Future
Books were meant to be touched. The exhibitions will be treated "library-style", complete with library cards for each visitor who can check books out and view them while in the galleries. There are no frames hanging on a wall. This is a purely tactile experience.

Brooklyn, NY
February 19-21, 2010
303Grand

Los Angeles, CA
April 8-11, 2010
Art & Shelter Gallery

Saint Louis, MO
April 16-18, 2010
Soulard Art Market

Chicago, IL
May 7-9, 2010
Home Gallery

Release

Inspired by releasing baby sea turtles in Guatemala, a series of paintings reflecting the life cycle and environmental threats to turtles are currently being developed.

Join the Scurry
Help me support the hatching and release of endangered sea turtles through ARCAS Guatemala

Reap
The Environmental Unsustainability of the
American Food Machine

Exhibition Overview

Interview with Andrew Silvertein,
Universtiy of South Florida

Bitter but beautiful Harvest
Lee Lee's stark style captures anger and elegance among environmental degradation.
by Lennie Bennett, St Petersburg Times

C Emerson Fine Arts, St Petersburg FL - 10-11.2009

right: Rain - Oil Refinery, detail - 2009

The Tampa Review

10.09: Publication in Tampa Review 37

 

 

right: Preservatives - digital photograph - 2008

Extinction

As we continue down our path of over-consumption we get nearer to mass extinction. I created this series of road kill drawings to reflect the decimation of our environment by our current lifestyle. I photographed the animals in Texas, where it is illegal to remove carcasses killed on the highway. The animals were left to be picked clean and decay, so manifest the full process of disintegration. I feel it is important to bring attention to the current state of the environment as we depend on the natural world for our own survival. The works carry a warning for the future if we continue to allow what is happening through our current disregard of the environment.

May 23 - July 26, 2009
Denver Botanic Gardens

Opening reception Thursday, May 28, 5:30 – 8 pm

Simon Zalkind, Curator of the Singer Gallery, Mizel Arts & Culture Center, and Ivar Zeile, Director/Owner of Plus Gallery, present this exhibition of contemporary artist responses to the concepts and issues raised by the potential extinction of species.

right: swallow - detail - pencil and tar on paper, 2008

Lee Lee - swallow drawing from roadkill series

CALYX

Publication in Vol. 25, no. 1, Winter 2009 issue of CALYX, A Journal of Art & Literature by Women

- Collapsed Home in Vares, Bosnia (imaged right)
- Angkor Shrine, Cambodia
- Confined Shrine, Myanmar

 

 

 

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

confined shrine

right: Myanmar - confined shrine - xerograph & watercolor on collage, 2008

Lee Lee - Vares, Bosnia

Lee Lee - painting of Burmese shrine