Emily Lee is an artist, writer, and community organizer from the Texas Gulf Coast. Lee asks what is lost and gained as we translate life into language, and language into material. Working experimentally across a wide array of material processes involving steel welding, metal casting, ceramic pit firing, woodworking, and collecting found objects, Lee makes large-scale sculptures for outdoor public spaces, installations within gallery contexts, and discrete objects full of empty space.
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 been asked to speak on panels at The Contemporary (Austin), Gutterblood on the Wall (Austin) and for undergraduate courses at The University of Texas at Austin and Grand Valley State University. She founded a neighborhood DIY space called All the Sudden (ATS) which has supported and shared the work of 30 visual artists, 41 bands/soloists, 9 poets, 22 creative vendors, and 7 first-time creative workshop instructors, and many other groups. ATS has raised over $2,000 for mutual aid work benefitting the climate, reproductive justice, and local communities.
She can fabricate you something, too. Feel free to reach out about that.