Take 12
10" X 10""
Collage on board

2010

Lee Richmond’s passion is interpreting life through art. Her artistic work strives to make order out of chaos and extract meaning from our stages of the life using personal, and symbolic references relating to our cultural history.

“We have the tools to remodel ourselves and embrace life’s unexpected turns,” Lee said. “Beginning with drawing, I juxtapose shape and pattern and create in layers. As I move through the process everything changes again; I see differently and begin adding, editing and layering until I feel myself at home.”

Her latest series Exterior Shots, documents a house in the neighborhood— the house, the color, the texture — and in this exploration of her mind at play she subtly reveals her unique view of life.

Inspired by the making of a movie, Lee revisits a favorite house, and takes polaroid pictures –then she draws  and collages using scraps of ephemera collected since she moved to Seattle. For this new series, Lee uses photocopy techniques to remove detail, like memory fading over time.

Each image in Exterior shots is then re constructed out of paper and patterns, until the house takes on a character of its own and becomes the star of a documentary film. The whole production tries to make sense of time verses memory while the house character expresses it's own subtle messages --a nod to our current times.

Biography:

Education

2007    Bachelor of Education, Fine Art Speciality, York University, Toronto, ON

2006    Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing and Painting, Ontario College of Art and Design,

                   Toronto, ON

Solo Exhibitions

2010    Current Work, Vino Verite, Seattle, WA

2009    Life as a House, La Familia Gallery, Seattle, WA

            Blitz!, Retail Therapy, Seattle, WA

1999    Evolution, Nora Vaughan Gallery, Toronto, ON

1997    Tunnel, Manifestudio, Toronto, ON

Group Exhibitions

2010    Whimsy, Brick House Gallery, Tacoma, WA                 

2009    Aqua Art Miami Wynwood, Miami, FL

            5 x 5, La Familia Gallery, Seattle, WA

            Sketches, La Famillia Gallery, Seattle, WA

2008    New Members Group Show, La Familia Gallery, Seattle, WA

2006    Current work, Ontario College of Art & Design,Toronto, ON

2002    Current work, Distillery Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, ON

            Changing Green, Scadding Court Community Centre, Toronto, ON

            The Coaster* Project, Destination: The World, A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, ON

            The Coaster* Project, Destination: The World, Cameron House, Toronto, ON

2001    Item, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON

            Talking to Strangers, Chicago subway system, Chicago, IL

2000    Éire: celebration of a match,  Gallery 319, Toronto, ON

1999    BA Collective Show, Toronto, ON

            Stage 1: Discovery – Bones, Atrium Gallery, Toronto, ON

1998    Inking Rumours: from text to language: La Petite Envelope Urbaine, No. 2,

            OCAD Alumni Gallery, Toronto, ON

            Memory Quilt, Atrium Gallery, Toronto, ON

            Artist’s Room With a View, OCAD Studio Gallery, Florence, Italy

1997    Book 1* Past, la Chiesa americana, Florence, Italy

Related Experience

2008-      Art Collective Member, La Familia Gallery, Seattle, WA

2006        Art Educator, Learning Through The Arts, Toronto, ON

2005       Classroom Assistant, University of Toronto Early Learning Center and Rose                                         

                 Avenue Public School, Toronto, ON

                 Art Educator, HarbourKids Creative Arts Camp, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON

2004                   Creative Workshop Assistant, Red Pepper Spectacle Arts, Toronto, ON

                   Sculptors Assistant, Toronto, ON

                   Community Arts Assistant, Clinton Public School, Toronto District School Board, Toronto, ON

2003                   Art Director’s Assistant, Arc of Dreams, Environmental Awareness Project,Toronto, ON

2002                   Cataloguer, Archive Gallery, Toronto, ON