NEWS & EVENTS 2010

Eva Lee receives Asian Cultural Council Fellowship to travel to India to research Tibetan Buddhist art and meditative practices, attend a Mind & Life Institute conference, and create new work.

Above: All in My Mind, panel discussion about the brain and creative processes. From left to right are artist Nene Humphrey, neuroscientist Dr. Andre Fenton, artist Claire Watkins, Eva Lee, and neuroscientist Dr. Joe Ledoux. Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 7:00-8:30pm at Central Booking Gallery, NYC. Visible in background are stills and projected animation from Eva Lee's "Discrete Terrain: Windows on Five Emotions."

Anatomical/Microbial/Microcosms, Central Booking Gallery. May 13 - July 11, 2010. Opening reception, Thursday, May 13, 6-8pm. Participating artists Nene Humphrey, Eva Lee, Claire Watkins, and others.

Artsfest Film Festival, Eva Lee's animation Reteach A Thing Its Loveliness screens at Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, Harrisburg, PA. Over 70 films over 4 days, May 28-31, 2010. Special guest Adolfas Mekas presents his avant-garde comedy "Hallelujah The Hills."

Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism grants Eva Lee 2010 Artist Fellowship in New Media.

What If? 60x60x60, NewMediaNewMusicNewEngland. Interactive online exhibition involving 60 video clips and 60 sound compositions that are 60 seconds in duration each. Using a Cageian model of indeterminacy viewers select video and audio pairings. Click here to begin. Premiere screening, Thursday, April 29, 2010, 7:30pm at Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media. Participating artists include Halsey Burgund, Gene Gort, Eva Lee, Sarah Rushford, Ken Steen, and others.

Above: Eva Lee. "Node Showers 2," ink on paper, 11 x 15", 2009.

Astronomy: The Celestial, Central Booking Gallery II. March 4 - May 2, 2010. Central Booking inaugurates its new space, Gallery II, with a big bang. Artists explore the universe from an earthly base, as well as a cosmic one. Pariticipating artists include C. Bangs, Doug Beube, Mary Hambleton, Karen Hamner, Barbara Houghton, Eva Lee, Donna Livingstone, Despo Magoni, Pamela Moore, John Noestheden, Carol Prusa, Eric Puybaret, Ilse Schreiber, Susan Schwalb, Ted Victoria. Opening reception, Thursday, March 25, 2010, 6-8pm.

Above: Technology and Artmaking, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. February 28, 2010, 2-3:30pm. Panel discussion featuring Steven Sacks, Director of Bitforms gallery (left); artist Eva Lee (center); and George Fifield, Founder and Director of the Boston Cyberarts Festival (right), as they discuss digital technology’s impact upon studio practice. Moderated by Aldrich Exhibitions Director Richard Klein (far right). Image projected is Eva Lee's "No One Here But Io," ink on paper, 60" x 102", 2009.

Louisiana Art & Science Museum acquires Eva Lee animations Jewel and Winter's Veil for their collection.

NEWS & EVENTS 2009

Louisiana Art & Science Museum, "Starry Messenger: Galileo's Vision in 21st Century Art" September 26, 2009 - December 13, 2010.
In celebration of International Year of Astronomy 2009, this exhibition features 58 works by contemporary artists who, like their seventeenth century forbears, have found artistic inspiration in astronomy. Participating artists Vija Celmins, Thierry Despont, Elen A. Feinberg, Jonathan Feldschuh, Eva Lee, Carol Prusa, Josh Simpson, Sallie Wolf. 

Above: Eva Lee. Detail of "World Cell 2," ink on paper, 60 x 65", 2009.

Above: Panel discussion "Celestial Matters: A Talk with the Artists of Starry Messenger," Thursday, October 22nd, 5-8pm, held in Louisiana Art & Science Museum Irene W. Pennington Planetarium. Left to right: Carol Prusa, Sallie Wolf, Jonathan Feldschuh, Eva Lee, and moderators Elizabeth Weinstein, Curator, and Jon Elvert, Planetarium Director.

New York Hall of Science, "Digital 09: Mysteries in Science" October 3, 2009 - February 8, 2010. Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI.org) presents international juried digital print exhibition featuring artists Frederik de wilde, Roger Ferragallo, Mark Fischer, Ursula Freer, William Grabowski, David Hylton, Ellen Jantzen, Eva Lee, Jeremy Levine, Hariclia Michailidou, Mary Newbauer, William D. Powell, Jalaliyyih Quinn, Todd Siler, Victoria Skinner, Betsy Skrip, George Steuer, Terry Trickett, Olaf Willoughby, Bonnie Wylo, and Jing Zhou. Juried by Dr. Arthur P. Molella, Director of The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History; and Artist-Curator Cynthia Pannucci, Founder and Director of ASCI. Opening Reception, Sunday, October 4th, 3-5pm. See it online

Above: Eva Lee. Archival digital prints, images are stills from the animation Reteach a Thing its Loveliness

Mind & Life Summer Research Institute Research Fellow

John Michael Kohler Art Center, "All Over the Map"
Representing both real and imagined places and plotting shifting social and cultural forces, maps function as a metaphor for journeys and allow us to view the world in new ways. Utilizing these inherent qualities of cartography, the artists whose work is featured in All Over The Map use this format as a point of departure–literally and figuratively–to powerfully transport us to another place. Participating artists Michael Ashkin, Mark Bennett, Russell Crotty, Brian Dettmer, Dawn Gavin, The Hand Drawn Map Association, Kim Jones, Nina Katchadourian, Karey Kessler, Joyce Kozloff, Eva Lee, Maya Lin, Mark Lombardi, Matthew Picton, Lordy Rodriquez, Yumi Janario Roth, Paula Scher, Deb Sokolo, and Renee Van der Selt. Feb 15 - May 10, 2009, Sheboygan, WI.

"Reaching for the Stars," Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra. Multimedia presentation and performance of Gustav Holst's "The Planets" in celebration of 2009 International Year of Astronomy, Saturday, April 4, 2009, 8pm. Video by Eva Lee and Cornell University.
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Connecticut's Commission on Culture and Tourism Art in Public Spaces Program invites Eva Lee along with four other artists to submit a proposal for Bridgeport Juvenile Courthouse project.

Artist Talk at Gallery of Contemporary Art, "The Elements: Earth"

Above: Eva Lee delivers talk, "Art Meets Neuroscience," at the opening reception of "The Elements: Earth" on view Jan 25 - Mar 5, 2009, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University. Artists in the show: The Black Estate, Michele Brody, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Anthony Falcetta, Andy Goldsworthy, Kim Keever, Niki Ketchman, Eva Lee, Stephanie Lempert, David Meisel, Barbara Rothenberg, Gerald Saladya, Jane Sutherland, Apo Tarosyan, and Margaret Tsirantonakis. Shown at left is digital animation, Discrete Terrain.

Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) January '09 Featured Member

NEWS & EVENTS 2008

BBC Big Screen Liverpool
Above: View of BBC Big Screen Liverpool showing Eva Lee's digital animation Winter's Veil, part of Sizemology curated by Bren O'Callaghan, Clayton Square, June 13 - 26, 2008. Also featured were films by Sam Meech, Eric Olofson, Alex Pearl, Kiraki Sawa, Molly Schwartz, and Pipilotti Rist.

"Aesthetics and Function of Visualization in Art and Science," panel discussion, Bard College, October 10, 2008, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

Colloquium, presenting Discrete Terrain, Bard College, Dec 4, 2008. Sponsored by the Bard College Psychology Department.

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, "Aldrich Undercover" An exhibition and benefit art sale presented by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, featuring hundreds of original works by leading contemporary artists. Buyers, however, don’t know whose work they’ve chosen until after they make their purchase, Nov 21, 2008.

The 2008 DeCordova Annual Exhibition

Above: Viewers watching Discrete Terrain: Windows on Five Emotions at The 2008 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, May 10 - Aug 17. Artists in the show were Mitchel K. Ahern, Matt Brackett, Leah Gauthier, The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, Niho Kozuru, Eva Lee, Yana Payusova, David Prifti, Kirsten Reynolds, Mark Schoening, Vanessa Tropeano, and Marguerite White.

Above: Eva Lee and filmmaker Robin Hessman talking with DeCordova Director Dennis Kois at the opening reception of The 2008 DeCordova Annual Exhibition.

Kenise Barnes Fine Art, "I am That," Mar 1 - Apr 9, 2008. Artists speak to the duality of selves and nature, with Cecile Chong, Michiyo Ihara, Eva Lee, Patricia Miranda and Katarina Wong.

Wave Hill "Ornamental Instincts"

Above: Eva Lee's animation Winter's Veil, projected onto Wave Hill's Tea Room mirror, "continues her fascination with science and notions of reality...resembling both cosmic forms and tiny atoms in the stark monochromatic tones of winter snow."--Wave Hill, 2008. Part of group exhibition curated by Wennie Huang, Nov 23, 2007 - Feb 10, 2008. Other participating artists were Siona Benjamin, Cristina de Gennaro, Nancy Friedemann, Skowmon Hastanan, Tamiko Kawata, Janet Koenig, Rachel Selekman, Julio Valdez, Mansheng Wang, and Lynne Yamamoto.

NEWS & EVENTS 2007

Jail Gallery, "Pie in the Face," Nov 3 - Dec 22, 2007. A group exhibition curated by Keith Sklar. Artists featured were Aidas Bareikis, Matt Connors, Sara Hunsucker, Clint Jukkala, Kristi Kent, Eva Lee, Anthony Lepore, Adrian Meraz, Pawel Wojtasik, and Ana Wolovick.

Wadsworth Atheneum "Connecticut Contemporary"

Above: Installation view of Eva Lee's 3D digital animation Discrete Terrain: Windows on Five Emotions, part of "Connecticut Contemporary" exhibition, April 19 - August 12, 2007. The Wadsworth Atheneum invited eight Connecticut artists--Rachel Berwick, Ellen Carey, Barkley Hendricks, Eva Lee, Sol LeWitt, Jessica Stockholder, Peter Waite, and Pawel Wojtasik--to participate and for each to select another Connecticut artist for the exhibition, who in turn selected another, resulting in a a grouo of 24. Others in the show were Johanna Bresnick, Aletheia Chamberlain, Susan Classen-Sullivan, William de Lottie, Barkley Hendricks, Qimin Liu, Kathryn Myers, Janet Passehl, Joseph Scanlon, Jessica Schwind, Gil Scullion, Joseph Smolinski, Tavares Strachan, Robert Taplin, Max Toth, Peter Waite, and Mark Williams.

Sharon Arts Center, "Viewing MacDowell: Works by Recent MacDowell Colony Artists," curated by Rachel Garceau, Jul 7 - Aug 18, 2007. Artists include Bobby Neel Adams, Jen Bervin, John Bisbee, Emily Brown, Fritz Buehner, Lisa Dahl, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Lucy Hodgson, Cassie Jones, Eva Lee, Megan McLarney, Matthew Northridge, Joanne Pasila, and Lisa Robinson.

NEWS & EVENTS 2006

Westport Arts Center, "Global"

Above & below: View of Eva Lee's digital video installation Jewel created for "Global," curated by Richard Klein and on view at Westport Arts Center Nov 3 - Dec 22, 2006. Twenty artists were each invited to alter a globe for the exhibition. They were Janice Caswell, David Colbert, Nancy Davidson with Judy Dunaway, Michael DeFeo, Lisa Hoke, Niki Ketchman, Joyce Kozloff, Eva Lee, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Tom Mezzanotte, Michael Oatman, David Opdyke, Carolina Pedraza, Scott Richter, Lordy Rodriguez, Gloria Santoyo Ruenitz, Alexander Shundi, Charles Spurrier, Yuken Teruya, and John Frederick Walker.

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, "Aldrich Undercover"

Above: Eva Lee. Dream Girl, ink & watercolor on paper, 9 x 12", 2006. Part of "Aldrich Undercover," a secret exhibition and benefit art sale, Nov 17, 2006.

Artspace, "Thread"

Above: Installation view of "Threads," at Artspace, New Haven, CT, an exhibition that explored the idea of "network" as an interconnected system of things, ideas, work or people. The physical exhibition featured "seed artists." Thread online began with the "seed artists" inviting other artists to participate in the show via the website. In turn, these invited artists were encouraged to invite others, and so on. With each new artist, the network grew. Featuring Christina Ayala and John Morris, Eudald Lerga, Eva Lee, Hayes Raffle, and Scott Snibbe. Curated by Trifocal Projects.

Cow Parade Benefit Event

Above: "Psyche's Soma," painted fiberglass sculpture, approx. 48" high, 2006.

Black Rock Center for the Arts, "Current Abstraction"

Above: "Current Abstraction," group exhibition at Black Rock Center for the Arts. Featuring June Ahrens, Joseph Fucigna, Melinda Hackett, Joseph Fucigna, Peter Hildebrand, Eva Lee, Laura Watt. Curated by Margaret Roleke.

Gallery of Contemporary Art, "The Local Line" Eva Lee, Dorothy Powers, Suzan Shutan, and Eve Stockton "present evocative and engaging works that stretch the definition of the 'line.'"--Sacred Heart University, Apr 30 - Jun 1, 2006.

OH+T Gallery, "Katherine Jackson, Pamela Harris, Eva Lee, William Weiss: New Works on Paper" Jan 12 - Feb 18, 2006. Awarded Best Group Show in a Commercial Gallery, Second Place by The Association of Art Critics USA, NEw England Chapter, 2006.

NEWS & EVENTS 2005

Real Art Ways, "Eva Lee: New Drawings & Digital Animations"

Above: Installation view of "Eva Lee: New Drawings & Digital Animations," a solo exhibition at Real Art Ways.

Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery, "About Light"

Above: "About Light," works by Laura Gail Tyler, Carter Hodgkin, Eva Lee and Lisa Perez on view at Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery, Nov 21 - Dec 13, 2005. Curated by Carol Struve.

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Above: "Navel Cell," ink on paper, 59 3/4 x 75", 2002.

Collaborative Concepts at Bulldog Studios, "Flow: Navigating the Super Paradigm" Curated by Karlos Carcamo, Oct 15 - Nov 13, 2005. Artists Allison Gildersleeve, Elia Gurna, James Sheehan, Charlotte Schulz, Karen Ostrom, Hiroshi Kimura, Eva Lee, Eleanor White, Matt Harle, Deborah Davidovits, Mary Temple, Tricia McLaughlin, Gregory Slick, Mathieu Borysevicz, Susan Magnus, James Walsh, Kazumi Tanaka, Carlos Ancalmo, Quintin Rivera-Toro, Jen Bradford, Christopher Albert, Stephanie Diamond. Referencing the term “Super Paradigm” to describe the growing New York art world by Village Voice art critic Jerry Saltz, the exhibition explores the vast “flow” of ideas and diverse methods contemporary artists use to navigate through.

Westby Gallery, "Drawing Networks: Abstraction and the Scientific"

Above: Drawings by Eva Lee, Henry Mandell, and Karen Margolis. Curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian. Westby Gallery, Rowan University, Jan 18 - Feb 25, 2005.

Smack Mellon, "Between Interconnectedness"

Featured artists Ian Burns, Angie Drakopoulos, Eva Lee, Marci MacGuffie, Sam martineau, Caitlin Masley, David McQueen. Curated by Suzanne Kim, Dec 4 - Jan 16, 2005. By abstracting truths from various disciplines of research such as engineering, quantum mechanics, architecture, and metaphysics these seven artists demonstrate the diverse ways a work of art can illuminate the dynamics of life.

NEWS & EVENTS 2004

Citicorp Window Gallery, "Six Windows"

Above: Eva Lee, "Devolved Cut-Outs," part of Six Windows, an exhibition in 2004 sponsored by NURTUREart Non_Profit, Inc., exhibiting site-specific work by Malin Abrahamsson, Mike Childs, Eva Lee, Patrick Schmidt, Ilene Sunshine, at Citicorp Building, Long Island City, NY.

Above: Detail, Eva Lee's "Devolved Cut-Outs," part of Six Windows, an exhibition in 2004 sponsored by NURTUREart Non_Profit, Inc., at Citicorp Building, Long Island City, NY.

Wave Hill, "Pondering the Marvelous"

Above: View of some works in "Pondering the Marvelous," a group exhibition of works that explore complexity of scale and perception in nature by Emilie Clark, Karla Knight, and Eva Lee. Sept 5 - Nov 28, 2004.

Kerrigan Campbell Art + Projects, "Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions" Artists Theresa Chong, Yvonne Estrada, Eva Lee, Henry Mandell. Jul 23 - Sept 3, 2004. "All four artists create drawings of complex systems displaying structures and patterns that mimic the irregularities found in nature...representative of dynamic systems: systems in a state of flux, prone to changeability, chaos, chance, and endless cycling without repetition." -- Lisa Hatchadoorian, curator. Below: Eva Lee. "Wired Vacuole," ink and watercolor on paper, 11 x 10 3/8", 2003.

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, "The Drawn Page"

Above: "Liminal Division 2," by Eva Lee, ink on paper, 19 x 13", exhibited in "The Drawn Page" at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Jun 13 - Sept 1, 2004. Collection of The MacDowell Colony.

Yale University School of Art Gallery, "Shifting Affinities" Curated by Paul Clabby, 2004, featuring among others works by Chloe Atreya, Mia Brownell, Colleen Coleman, Eva Lee, Linda Lindroth, Adam Niklewicz, Jessica Schwind, Joseph Smolinkski.

P.S. 122, "Eva Lee and Alexandra Newmark"

Above: Installation view of drawings and digital animation The Liminal Series by Eva Lee on view at P.S. 122 Gallery, Feb 28 - Mar 21, 2004, part of two-person exhibit with Alexandra Newmark.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, "In the Face of Others" Exploring the dynamics of communities, the 2004 Winter/Spring gallery exhibition at LMCC's One Wall Street Court features a group show organized by NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. Exhibiting artists are: Seongmin Ahn, Kristin Anderson, Brandon Ballengée, Tim Blum, Mariestella Colon-Astacio, William Crow, Ula Einstein, Jennifer Formica, Carla Gannis, Ben Goldman, Rebecca Hackemann, Shelley Haven, Nicholas Knight, Eliot Lable, David Lantow, Eva Lee, Nina Levy, Karen Marston, Robert Martinez, Patrick Meagher, Eva Melas, Tom Moore, Hee Jun Park, Jack Pospisil, Elizabeth Riley, Maria Spector, Deborah Wasserman. Jan 12 - Apr 30, 2004.

NEWS & EVENTS 2003

Heckscher Museum of Art, "Genetic Expressions: Art After DNA"

Above: Artist Eva Lee with Dr. James Watson, discoverer along with Dr. Francis Crick of the double helix structure of DNA, at the Heckscher Museum opening reception of "Genetic Expressions: Art After DNA," a group exhibition curated by Lynn Gamwell and Elizabeth Meryman. Artists exhibited were Suzanne Anker, Tom Friedman, Eva Lee, Tom Otterness, Alexis Rockman, Alexander Ross, Phillip Taaffe, Gary Schneider, among others. Shown is Eva Lee's drawing "Division," ink on paper.

Metaphor Contemporary Art, "Hello Dolly"

Above: A group exhibition examining the fascination and discomfort provoked by recent developments in genetic engineering, cloning, genome mapping, and artificial intelligence. We are living in a world of technology advancing far faster than the average human can comprehend. Addressing these issues the six artists in Hello Dolly, Nate Hill, Jessie Joo, Eva Lee, Leah Oates, Taney Roniger, and Andrea Wohl, express our sense of awe at these vast complexities, explore our fears, and examine the opportunities offered for the future of our species through scientific advancement. Mar 14 - Apr 13, 2003. Below: opening reception of Hello Dolly. Shown at left is "Transmission Bloom" by Eva Lee, ink on paper.

NEWS & EVENTS 2002

Jan Cicero Gallery, "The Project Room"

Above: Installation view of "Transformation Scroll II," ink on paper, by Eva Lee, exhibited at Jan Cicero Gallery, 2002.

Asian American Arts Centre, "Contrary Equilibriums"

Above: Detail of "Transfers," watercolor & ink on paper, by Eva Lee, a work exhibited at "Contrary Equilibriums," the 12th Annual Exhibition at Asian American Arts Centre. Juried by Mihee Ah, Timothy Liu, Margo Machida, Tricia Paik, and Lydia Yee. Artists included Seongmin Ahn, Susan Choi, Phuong M. Do, C.J. Lee, Eva Lee, Asuka Ohsawa, Sara Ching-Yu Sun, Noelle Tan, Mary Ting, Kaori Ukaji, and Katarina Wong.

Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery, "The Drawing Room"

Above: Installation view of drawings by Eva Lee, part of "The Drawing Room," a group exhibition also featuring the works of Frank Magnotta and Ayae Takahashi, Jun 21 - Jul 27, 2002. Curated by Nao Onda.

NEWS & EVENTS 2001

The Bronx Museum of Arts, "AIM 21"

Maria Alos, Elka Amorim, Paolo Arao, Sandra Bermudez, Kelley Bush, Karlos Carcamo, Jyung-wang Cho, Sun-Hee Choi, Erika deVries, Michael dickas, Nicolas Dumit, Estevez, Rosemarie Fiore, Monika Goetz, Glenn Grafelman, Pablo Helguera, Rebecca Herman, Stephen Hightower, Nancy Hwang, Yoko Inoue, Claudia Joskowicz, Hiroshi Kimura, Noah Kersfeld, Franziska Lamprecht, Eva Lee, Laura Lobdell, Patricia McLaughlin, Alejandra Munizaga, Sarah Oppenheimer, Troy Richards, Kent Rogowski, Carol Shadford, Dannielle Tegeder, Scott Teplin, David C. Terry, Bradley Wood, Jennifer Zackin.

Above: AIM 21 artists, 2001.

NEWS & EVENTS 2000

The Stamford Museum & Nature Center Art-X Gallery, "Ancestral Mnemonics"

Above: "Eyesites," mixed media on paper, 30 x 88", by Eva Lee, on view at "Ancestral Mnemonics," a solo exhibition at Art-X Gallery, Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Apr 30 - Jun 4, 2000.

Times Square Gallery, "Meditations on Matrices"

Above: Installation view of "Meditations on Matrices," solo exhibition by Eva Lee at Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, Dec 13, 1999 - Jan 13, 2000.

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