bio
Although born in Spokane Washington in 1974, Lee has been an Oregon resident for 28 years. In 1996, while attending the University of Oregon in Eugene, he studied drawing, painting, printmaking and ceramics. It was under the influences and direction of Ron Graff and Carla Bengston that the commitment was made to pursue painting. "My goals as an artist consist of personal convictions and beliefs about a certain 'rightness' concerning painting."
objectives
"The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness which ideas can never claim,"
Cy Twombly.Paintings are of painting in the act of experience; my interests lie therein. I make my decisions based on an esthetic judgement, but this need not be finished, perfect, or complete; my work is exposed, imperfect, and alive. I find beauty in this vein. If I find violence, it must be worked out but appropriation must not be decorated. Painting is color of which the art form will not be denied. Often the viewer is being forced to accept things he or she may not understand; and so the confrontation begins.