Katherine Lee - Maps, Doors and Coffins: Locating Absence

June 5, 2015–July 5, 2015

Artist Reception: Friday, June 5, 5-7 pm

131126 Coffins for My Family
131126 Death Emblem Study: April/Cherry
131126 Death Emblem Study: August/Pear
131126 Death Emblem Study: December/ Poppy
131126 Death Emblem Study: February/Peach
131126 Death Emblem Study: January/Plum
131126 Death Emblem Study: June/Pomegranate
131126 Death Emblem Study: March/Peony
131126 Death Emblem Study: November/Gardinia
131126 Death Emblem Study: October/Chrysanthemum
131126 Death Emblem Study:July/Lotus
131126 Death Emblem Study:May/Magnolia
131126 Door 1
131126 Door 2
131126 Door 3
131126 Door 4
131126 Door Study (Mountain Home)
131126 Door Study (Old Trap)
131126 Door Study (Rising Fawn)
131126 Door Study (Satan's Kingdom)
131126 Door Study (Seldom-Little Seldom)
131126 Door Study (Sugar City)
131126 Door Study (Tangleflags)
131126 Door Study (Wolf Hole)
131126 Grass Map
131126 Home Map

PRESS RELEASE – Katherine Lee – Maps, Doors and Coffins: Locating Absence

TAI Modern is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Maps, Doors and Coffins: Locating Absence, a body of work by Katherine Lee that explores relationships between location, presence and perception. Katherine Lee’s evocative new work extends beyond the oil paintings she is known for and encompasses hand-crafted objects. Since her last exhibition at TAI […]

THE Magazine – Preview: Maps, Doors and Coffins: Locating Absence

The exquisitely painted oils of Katherine Lee are the maps inthis exhibition. With images of grass or empty highways at night, familiar yetsolitary, and indicative of an uninhabited space, these works take on deepermeaning when paired with the hand-crafted coffins and wooden doors Leeconstructed. The coffins—explored artistically in many cultures but not oftenby Americans, who […]

Pasatiempo – A matter of life and death: artist Katherine Lee

In her exhibition With Fire,Flags, and Sacrifice, which opened at Eight Modern in 2013, local artist Katherine Lee presented a body of work that spoke to the transient nature of human life in an intriguing way: by calling attention to its absence in compositions based on human-made environments such as a city street and an […]

THE Magazine – Review – Maps, Doors and Coffins: Locating Absence

The limits of my language are the limits of my world. —Ludwig Wittgenstein FULL DISCLOSURE: I AM A LITTLE BIT IN LOVE WITH KATHERINE LEE. I mean,what’s not to love? She’s a delightful young woman, shy and whip smart, with greater talent and drive than any one person ought to be allowed to possess. […]