New Works By Katherine Lee, With Fire, Flags, and Sacrifice

September 6, 2013–October 19, 2013

131126 Exterior 23 (Over Grown Domestic Scene)
131126 Exterior 27 (Death. On Isola di San Michele)
131126 Study of Concrete with Laser Beam
131126 Study of Grass with Laser Beam

PRESS RELEASE – New Works by Katherine Lee, with Fire, Flags and Sacrifice

Lee’s third solo exhibition at Eight Modern includes ten new oil and spray paint paintings, a continuation of her Exteriorsseries. Though unpopulated–at least by the living–each of these architectural settings are charged with possibility and suspended action. Elements such as still-smoldering embers in a disheveled yard or flames reflected in a storefront window open the […]

Previews: New Works by Katherine Lee, with Fire, Flags and Sacrifice

Katherine Lee, who received her bachelor of fine arts at the College of Santa Fe in 2008, made waves several years ago with her exhibition Animal Violence and Topless Women Eating Jam, a grotesque yet intriguing show of drawings that garnered mixed reviews—but most certainly provoked a reaction. Lee’s upcoming solo show at Eight Modern […]

Visual Art Source – Katherine Lee

Meticulous brushwork and intelligently — if inexplicably — composed scenarios populate “New Works by Katherine Lee, Featuring Fire, Flags and Sacrifice.” Absent of any discernible narratives, Lee’s latest paintings are instead rife with ominous undertones, making their familiar-ness especially disorienting; the handful on view have a ghostly, just-vacated air. “Exterior 23,” with its clothesline and […]