Katherine Lee

Triangulation—the determination of a point based on three known coordinates—is the accepted manner for soundly calculating a location. A conceptual, geographical cue for the work of Katherine Lee, then, might begin from approximations of traditional painting, media literacy, and contemporary cultural signifiers.

Concerned ultimately with little beyond the act of painting and the technical result, Lee's work nonetheless evokes the uncomfortably unspoken implications of a society consumed with violent narcissism and bleak self-indulgence. The distillation of suppressed fear and fantasy—into aspects of pure beauty and precise rendering—that limns Lee's landscapes, mutes and critiques the condoned and canonical methods of interpretation.

Raised in the heart of Iowa and educated in Santa Fe—via Chicago—Lee leverages the disconnect between landscape, built environment and human habitation and machinations, triangulating such factors into singular points of investigation.