Exhibitions: Katherine Lee

Katherine Lee: Animal Violence and Topless Women Eating Jam
October 29th 2010 – December 4th 2010

Katherine Lee: The Brazil Series
June 15th 2009 – July 19th 2009

Katherine Lee's paintings transform familiar settings into scenes at once familiar and unnerving. In 2006, the artist spent a semester in Brazil studying art and language. During her time abroad, she produced a series of imagined landscapes using a signature combination of spray paint, transfer paper and oil paint. The resulting images, entitled "Exteriors," depict spaces of suspended action and endless possibility, unmanned but not abandoned.

Mind the Gap
November 21st 2008 – January 3rd 2009

"Mind the Gap" is a ubiquitous warning to passengers on the London Underground to watch their step and avoid a potentially calamitous fall between the platform and the train. It represents a simple warning, a reminder to follow the rules and play it safe. But what of those who carelessly - or defiantly - do not mind the gap?

Curator Cyndi Conn, Visual Arts Director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, has selected six artists who dwell in the gap between fact and imagination: Rita Bard, Jennifer Hoag, Fay Ku, Katherine Lee, Kim Russo and Tuscany Wenger. These artists create distinct mythologies of striking, strange creatures, disjointed everyday imagery and stories half-told in rebellious, hallucinatory narratives. By choosing to work in the gap, rather thatn on either side of it, they explore and enlighten the tenuous space between transparency and mystery, humor and tragedy.