Catherine Lee (painter)
Catherine Lee (born 1950 in Pampa, Texas) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. Her works, featuring repetitive forms in various materials (including canvas, bronze, iron, glass, and ceramics) have 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. Some of her work is currently held  and can be seen in the collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Work. Catherine Lee's sculptures (as small as a fist or as large as a sedan standing on end) are faceted polyhedra or polygons made from cast metal or clay. Hung on the wall, freestanding, or situated on plain steel pedestals or shelves — "some are singular works, others are grids of dozens of nearly identical, handmade components". 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" (1987), an "abstract monotype in color", is a part of the permanent exhibition in the Tate Gallery. Teaching. Lee has taught at  Princeton University (1980), Rochester Institute of Technology (1982), the University of Texas at San Antonio (1983) and (2000), and Columbia University (1986–1987). Solo exhibitions. A list of Catherine Lee's exhibitions taken from the book "Catherine Lee, the Alphabet Series and Other Works" by the Pamela Auchincloss Gallery.