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Artist Exhibitions:
Eric Lee & Jason Lanka Art
Exhibition
L.E. Phillips Memorial Library
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
400 Eau Claire Street
January 10 through February 16
Opening Reception: January 14,
7pm to 8:30pm...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming soon, State Street
Gallery in Madison,
Wisconsin...
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Eric J. Lee
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http://eric-j-lee.org
America, the civilization, is a production-based industrial event, and not one of documents, ideals or civil revolution. My interest lies in the forging of the American character as indivisible from that of the mill, shipyard, or mine. The factory is to America as the cathedral is to Europe and for much the same reasons. The relics of our industrial past are the palpable remains of our temperament, voracity and prodigy.
My paintings explore this inheritance as found throughout the rust belt region of the Great Lakes basin where the effects of mechanization were most starkly realized. Often shown in isolation, I choose megalithic and ponderous structures as archetypal portraits of the American character as ravenous, individualistic and estranged from history. I scar, detonate and afflict my canvases as a reenactment and portrayal of a brief, but volcanic era that defined itself through labor.
- Eric Lee
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