Emily Lee (b. 1996 in Beaumont, TX) reactivates the form and materiality of objects whose physicality is often overlooked in today’s flattened conditions. Working large, at the scale of the human body and its architectures, Lee creates with the goal of evading both language and image. She works across a wide range of media because she finds it useful to approach the work’s material with the awareness of a novice. Lee believes sculpture is a social apparatus that can instill patience for discomfort and tolerance for the inconclusive in both the artist and the viewer. Emily Lee is an artist, writer, and community organizer from the Texas Gulf Coast.
Emily Lee has exhibited in Texas and New York, including the Fort Worth Modern (Fort Worth), the Visual Arts Center (Austin), Jonathan Hopson Gallery (Houston), Sweet Pass Sculpture Park (Dallas), Co-Lab Projects (Austin), and 5-50 Gallery (LIC, NY). She has spoken on panels at The Contemporary (Austin), Gutterblood on the Wall (Austin) and for undergraduate courses at The University of Texas at Austin, Texas State, and Grand Valley State University. She founded a neighborhood DIY space called All the Sudden (ATS) which has supported and platformed and supported the work of visual artists, bands/soloists, poets, freelance creative vendors, and first-time creative workshop instructors, and many others. ATS has raised cash for mutual aid work benefitting the climate and reproductive justice and itself.
She can fabricate you something, too. Feel free to reach out about that.