Rhys Lee: Recent Paintings
Painting has always been an intuitive process for
Rhys Lee. Through a vibrant palette, his playful mark making draws from personal memories in a moment of cathartic release.
Reminiscent of
Pablo Picasso and
George Condo, Lee’s fractured portraits and still life compositions rely on a cubist aesthetic. By fusing these traditional art tendencies with the graffiti influences from his youth, Lee powerfully develops a unique, experimental and raw practice. The artist blurs the boundaries between representation and abstraction, shifting his focus to colour and form. As his subjects dissolve, the textures and layers of paint reveal themselves in all their glory.
Rhys Lee s Recent Paintings Debut in Los Angeles @ Avenue des Arts
February 03, 2021 | in Painting
The global positioning of Australia makes it for a unique experience of the world events having fresh winters while Europe or the USA enjoy the warm summers or hiding from the scorching sun while the others are having winter holidays. And the latter one became especially twisted in the year of pandemic, as the North hemisphere world went into lockdowns in order to fight the second or third waves of Covid-19 infections.
Watching this scenario unravel from the sun-basked Australia, seemed to have a strong impact on Rhys Lee, who recently opened his LA solo debut opened at Avenue des Arts with the aptly titled,