Carlyle Wolfe Lee golden
Carlyle Wolfe Lee’s GOLDEN features observational works on paper and panel rich with saturated colors that hold tight to the final long days of summer and propel us into fall.
Lee has devoted many years to observing changes in color and light that occur with seasonal transitions. Her work embodies rhythms, patterns, and hues that develop as plants seed, trees change, and flowers bloom.
Lee employs a meticulously cumulative process to create her densely layered watercolor pieces and paintings on panel. Beginning with graphite plant studies on paper, she collects shapes, lines, and colors to develop seasonal environments. From her studies, she develops stencils that become abstracted based on the perspective of the drawing.
These abstractions blur recognizable flowers and leaves, while tonal color palettes guide our understanding of her surroundings. The oscillations between abstract imagery and realistic depictions mirror fading light and shadow within her paintings, representing an infinite, evergreen environment.
Carlyle Wolfe Lee received her BFA in Painting from the University of Mississippi and her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University. Her work was selected for The Art in Embassies Program at the US Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique. She has exhibited work throughout the South including, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center, the University of Charleston, the Shaw Center for the Arts, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, the University of Mississippi Museum, and Arkansas Art Center. She currently lives and works in Oxford, MS.
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