Rodney Lee

As a painter and multimedia artist, my aim is to inspire, and evoke freedom, passion, pride, joy, pain, ecstasy. I want my people to be free, to feel free; through art I dream about what that could look like, what freedom feels like to me; through art I get to reflect on my experience(s) as a Black man in America, examining the obstacles and challenges which define the constant struggle for freedom.

Painting is sometimes creating something out of nothing... and at all times, I feel a duty to serve: my people, my community, my world... through the God-given gift of creating art. I feel this duty largely because art has truly been my salvation, informing my awareness, my education, my healing, my growth.. as a human, a citizen of the world, a son, a father, a brother. Art is a gift to share with the world, to uplift and inspire, with thoughts and visions of liberation, prayers for our souls in this mean time.

B.F.A., Sound (+) Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
M.S., Computer Science; B.A. General Studies, University of Chicago

Superfine! DC Inaugural Arts Fair
Jenkintown Festival of the Arts, Jenkintown, PA
Fall for the Arts Festival, Chestnut Hill, PA
Philly Art Collective, Philly Show (x2)
Columbia College
Black Harvest Film Festival
Central Academy of Arts, Beijing
Southside Community Arts Center (x3)