The Valley Arts District is pleased to present the last Art Loop of 2011.
Join us on Friday, December 2nd from 6 to 9 PM for the reception of GRAVITY MINE contemporary art exhibition of Jody Lee's work at the IronWorks Gallery, 406 Tompkins Street, Orange, NJ.
PRESS QUOTES:
“Lee’s drawings are unsettlingly ambiguous, and universally interesting.”
April Brown
“On View”, The Met
“Jody Lee’s awkward yet somehow elegant drawings and sculptures exist in a unique, in-between realm. In both, a quiet poetic tension resonates as a seemingly preliminary image reaches toward structure, then retreats; jells then collapses.”
Suzanne Weaver
Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art
Artistic Centers: Dallas/Ft. Worth
“Lee’s work also has movement, although heavier and more deliberate than the Motherwell, with notable sexual overtones - and boasts plenty of presence.”
Christina Rees
“How to Buy Art”, D Magazine
“Despite the works’ often playful and literal nature, they’re bolstered by serious secondary themes, such as emotion, esteem and sexuality.”
Mike Daniel
“Jody Lee at Marty Walker Gallery”, The Dallas Morning News
“Viewing Hover and Swell, Jody Lee’s first solo exhibition, may cause an intense desire to know more about the artist behind the weird, subliminal, sexually charged pipe-cleaner sculptures and gouache drawings.”
April Brown
“On View”, The Met
“…[T]he dominant subject matter you start to glean is sexual, in the corporeal physicality of gender. Lee’s work is sensual in its capacity to evoke sensory experiences that remind you of the ways in which gender is constantly defined…Along with a number of other contemporary women artists who are continuing the paths swathed by Janine Antoni, Susan Rothenberg, and Elizabeth Murray, Lee’s work explores the figurative via abstraction.”
Bret McCabe
“Jody Lee at Barry Whistler”, GlassTire
