Catherine Lee (painter)


Catherine Lee is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. Her works, featuring repetitive forms in various materials, from stone to canvas, has been described as minimalist and structuralist.

Biography

Lee grew up in Pampa, Texas. She studied at San Jose State University in San Jose, California, where she earned a bachelor's degree in studio art in 1974. She lived in New York City for almost thirty years and returned to Texas in late 1990s, settling in the Hill Country near Austin.

Work

Lee held her first solo exhibition in 1977 at the Duffy-Gibbs Gallery in New York City, and her work has been subsequently displayed in several public and private collections. A Los Angeles Times review of her 1988 solo exhibition at Michael Maloney Gallery describes her work as small, quirky wall pieces consisting of oddly shaped, individually colored or bronze elements that nestle closely together, often in a jigsaw fashion. In 2012, she was the featured artist of the West Texas Triangle, group of five art museums in western Texas. Her work Unica 39, an "abstract monotype in color", is a part of the permanent exhibition in the Tate Gallery.

Teaching

Lee has taught at Princeton University, Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at San Antonio and, and Columbia University.

Collections

A list of Catherine Lee's exhibitions taken from the book Catherine Lee, the Alphabet Series and Other Works by the Pamela Auchincloss Gallery.
YearCityGallery
1980Queens, New YorkMoMA PS1
1983San AntonioThe University of Texas
1984AkronJohn Davis Gallery
1985New YorkGallery Bellman
1985AkronJohn Davis Gallery
1986New YorkJohn Davis Gallery
1987New YorkJohn Davis Gallery
1988Santa MonicaMichael Maloney Gallery
1989LondonAnnely Juda Fine Art
1989BostonThomas Segal Gallery
1990New YorkMarisa del Re Gallery
1990ParisGalerie Karsten Greve
1990OsakaGallery Kasahara
1990San FranciscoStephen Wirtz Gallery
1991ZürichGalerie Jamileh Weber
1991CologneGalerie Karsten Greve
1991NagoyaKohji Ogura Gallery
1992MunichStädtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
1992LinzNeue Galerie der Stadt Linz
1992CopenhagenGalleri Weinberger
1993New York CityGalerie Lelong
1994Birmingham, MichiganHill Gallery
1995ParisGalerie Karsten Greve
1995CopenhagenGalleri Weinberger
1995New York CityGalerie Lelong
1995KölnGalerie Karsten Greve
1995TokyoMizuma Art Gallery
1996SalzburgGalerie Academia
1997ParisGalerie Karsten Greve
1998KölnGalerie Karsten Greve
1999New York CityGalerie Lelong