Catherine Lee (painter)
Catherine Lee (born 1950 in Pampa, Texas) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. Her works, featuring repetitive forms in various materials, from stone to canvas, has been described as minimalist and structuralist.[1]
Catherine Lee | |
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Born | 1950 |
Nationality | American |
Education | San José State University |
Known for | Painting, Sculpting, Printmaking |
Biography
Lee grew up in Pampa, Texas. She studied at San Jose State University in San Jose, California, where she earned a bachelor's degree in studio art in 1974.[2] She lived in New York City for almost thirty years and returned to Texas in late 1990s, settling in the Hill Country near Austin.[3]
Work
Lee held her first solo exhibition in 1977 at the Duffy-Gibbs Gallery in New York City, and her work has been subsequently displayed in several public and private collections.[3] A Los Angeles Times review of her 1988 solo exhibition at Michael Maloney Gallery describes her work as small, quirky wall pieces consisting of oddly shaped, individually colored or bronze elements that nestle closely together, often in a jigsaw fashion.[4] In 2012, she was the featured artist of the West Texas Triangle, group of five art museums in western Texas.[1][5][6] Her work Unica 39 (1987), an "abstract monotype in color", is a part of the permanent exhibition in the Tate Gallery.[3][7]
Teaching
Lee has taught at Princeton University (1980), Rochester Institute of Technology (1982), the University of Texas at San Antonio (1983) and (2000), and Columbia University (1986-1987). [8]
Collections
- Indianapolis Museum of Art
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[9]
- Tate Gallery, London
- The Metropolitan Opera,
- Museum of Modern Art.[10]
Solo Exhibitions
A list of Catherine Lee's exhibitions taken from the book Catherine Lee, the Alphabet Series and Other Works by the Pamela Auchincloss Gallery.[10]
Year | City | Gallery |
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1980 | Queens, New York | MoMA PS1 |
1983 | San Antonio | The University of Texas |
1984 | Akron | John Davis Gallery |
1985 | New York | Gallery Bellman |
1985 | Akron | John Davis Gallery |
1986 | New York | John Davis Gallery |
1987 | New York | John Davis Gallery |
1988 | Santa Monica | Michael Maloney Gallery |
1989 | London | Annely Juda Fine Art |
1989 | Boston | Thomas Segal Gallery |
1990 | New York | Marisa del Re Gallery |
1990 | Paris | Galerie Karsten Greve |
1990 | Osaka | Gallery Kasahara |
1990 | San Francisco | Stephen Wirtz Gallery |
1991 | Zürich | Galerie Jamileh Weber |
1991 | Cologne | Galerie Karsten Greve |
1991 | Nagoya | Kohji Ogura Gallery |
1992 | Munich | Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus |
1992 | Linz | Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz |
1992 | Copenhagen | Galleri Weinberger |
1993 | New York City | Galerie Lelong |
1994 | Birmingham, Michigan | Hill Gallery |
1995 | Paris | Galerie Karsten Greve |
1995 | Copenhagen | Galleri Weinberger |
1995 | New York City | Galerie Lelong |
1995 | Köln | Galerie Karsten Greve |
1995 | Tokyo | Mizuma Art Gallery |
1996 | Salzburg | Galerie Academia |
1997 | Paris | Galerie Karsten Greve |
1998 | Köln | Galerie Karsten Greve |
1999 | New York City | Galerie Lelong |
References
- Wei, Lilly; Westfall, Stephen; Pardee, Hearne (31 January 2013). Catherine Lee: West Texas Triangle. publisher: Charta/Galerie Lelong NY. ISBN 9788881588503. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- Weaver, Suzanne; Meador, Lana (2020). Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art. San Antonio Museum of Art. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-883502-08-9.
- Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. pp. 332–. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
- Cathy Curtis, "Santa Monica", Los Angeles Times, July 1, 1988. Accessed April 24, 2020.
- Geha, Katie (21 June 2012). "Interview with Catherine Lee". Glasstire.com. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- "About". West Texas Triangle. Archived from the original on 20 June 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- "Catherine Lee: Artworks". Tate Gallery. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- "Catherine Lee Biography".
- https://emuseum.mfah.org/people/27459/catherine-lee/objects?ctx=4582ea80287ab83e45c9a23ca3641f3c539c134f&idx=36
- Catherine Lee the Alphabet Series and Other Works. University of Washington Press. 1997. ISBN 096597460X.