Katherine Lee

In her most recent work, Katherine Lee worries at an uneasy truce between discordant elements and formal composition. In the Backdrop Study series, she populates a uniform, silk screened background with cultural artifacts, her own works and excerpts of urban observation. With her shelves, Lee adds a playful exploration of the relationship between painting and object and the boundaries between display and taxonomy. The result is a group of small, thoughtful works that range from composed mischief to provocative inquiry, that demonstrate investigation into form while questioning our culturally accepted patterns of visual digestion and appreciation.