Emily Lee’s work addresses the importance of understanding objects not as static items, but as part of a larger ongoing social and historical continuum and set of intra-actions within space. Her work considers form as a social apparatus.
Lee examines the ways in which form itself is an agent of both communication and control, capable of conditioning perception, focusing primarily on the complicated relationship between ecology, language, and the senses. Lee is an artist, writer, and community organizer from the Texas Gulf Coast.
Emily 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 spoken on panels at The Contemporary (Austin), Gutterblood on the Wall (Austin) and for undergraduate courses at The University of Texas at Austin, Texas State, and Grand Valley State University. She founded a neighborhood DIY space called All the Sudden (ATS) which has supported and platformed and supported the work of visual artists, bands/soloists, poets, freelance creative vendors, and first-time creative workshop instructors, and many others. ATS has raised cash for mutual aid work benefitting the climate and reproductive justice and itself.
She can fabricate you something, too. Feel free to reach out about that.