Adam Lee
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ADAM LEE
His work references a wide range of sources including historical and colonial photography, biblical narratives, natural history, and most recently seem to embody more imagined or fantastical sources, investigating aspects of the human condition in relation to ideas of temporal and supernatural worlds. There is a sort of unsettling stillness to Lee’s work, a type of peaceful disquietude, where figures are situated in strange, unearthly spaces seem to tend to their own spiritual procession. As his practice has moved from more traditional ‘landscape’ painting to a practice that incorporates more emotive, poetic and narrative qualities, the work seems laboured upon with an almost religious reverence – somewhere between RB Kitaj and Rothko, oddly enough. There is a stylization of all Lee’s forms – where the figures become almost crystallized – and the viewer senses the creative and critical processes Lee undergoes to create his distinct bodies of work. From hunters, to shamanism, to fatherhood, Lee’s themes result in an informative nucleus from which he works prolifically to create large paintings and drawings that respond to a central theme. As viewers, we become complicit to the world he creates.
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The Threshold, 2015, Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 25.5" X 37"
Like the Beasts That Perish, 2011, Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 79.5" x 67"
Mourner, 2016, Oil and synthetic polymer paint on paper, 14.76" X 12.01"
The Namesake, 2016, watercolour and synthetic polymer paint on paper, 58" X 47"
Sojourner, 2016, Oil on canvas, 25.59" X 33.86"
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