Or so it says on the cake.
Lee is this year’s winner of the Stranger’s Genius Award in visual art, which.comes with a cheap cake and a sizable check: $5,000. Lee is the essence anti-spectacle. Her Frequency Map (2007) at Lawrimore Project was a room empty save for the sporadic sound of soft knocking, answered by barely audible raps. When visitors left, the room tried to whistle them back, as if it were a void with needs. The room grew louder as it shuffled through its pickup moves, hoping to score.
In Fugue State, hands play across a cast resin pillow, slipping in and out of each other’s embrace. A force drives a fuse in Conjugal, thumping through the cotton batting of a mattress interior. Lee tracked oil drops swimming through water in Wake Up as she played Bach on the piano.
Conjugal, 2006, video
Lee has also served as curator, focused on what a devotion to the muck of clay does to contemporary artists. (Wet and Leatherhard at Lawrimore Project, review here.) Her videos here. Jen Graves on Lee’s selection here.
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