Zack Lee

My work emerges from dealing with issues of trust and letting go. It is a way of immersing myself in impermanence and expressing the liberation of stepping into the unknown. Each piece is an improvised call and response with the mediums at hand. With a constant reactive expression to the ever changing composition. My work is concerned with not being concerned. Each piece is approached both consciously and unconsciously; intentionally and unintentionally; rationally and irrationally. The paradoxes which lay at the heart of my work are a way of revealing a dependence and harmony of dualities.
Each piece begins with a type of automatic drawing. This is the unconscious expression of pure movement and gesture. My actions are not conditioned by an ideal composition, I do not know what the piece will look like and trust only in my ability to react to the materials. The process becomes a meditation on the ephemeral nature of reality as I relax and let forms evolve and dissolve as they may. As I continue to layer, I begin to make associations which change how I perceive and react to the piece. Every mark is an accident, but no mark is a mistake, and every unintentional gesture becomes intentional as it is integrated into the whole.
I wan...

University of Pittsburgh '13
BA in studio arts, minor in film

(*solo)

2014

-Abstract Sanctuary, Verum Ultimum, Portland OR.

2013

-*Speech Unspoken, Pittsburgh PA. Frick Fine Arts Vault
-Unblurred First Friday, Pop-up Gallery space, Pittsburgh PA.
-In the Suburbs I…, Pop-up Gallery, Langhorne PA. Curator: Bryan Funk
-Studio Arts Department Student Show, Frick Fine Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh PA.

2012

-Studio Arts Department Student Show, Frick Fine Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh PA.