NEWS & EVENTS 2011

Above: Eva Lee's animation Reteach a Thing Its Loveliness screens at Streaming Festival 6th Edition, December 1-18, 2011, an annual international festival exhibiting unconventional audiovisual art by independent artists.

‎Above: On view at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Pumpkin Faces is a contemporary interpretation of the Jack O’Lantern theme, played on repurposed TV monitors. Laura Alindogan, Rebecca Brand, Nick Ryan, and Julia Siewert, four local teens, each created individual animations in a master class led by video artist Eva Lee, Oct 14-16, 2011.

Lux Flux (above) and Winter's Veil (below) at Big Screen Plaza, July and September, 2011, as part of Leaders in Software and Art (LISA) program. Big Screen Plaza is an innovative venue for video, film, live and interactive content located at the 10,000 square foot public plaza on Sixth Avenue between 29th and 30th Streets, New York City. Read more here.

Below: Eva Lee is a digital media arts coordinator at Kalachakra 2011, the Dalai Lama's Event for World Peace, held at Verizon Center, Washington D.C. from July 6-16, 2011. She also produced video presentations of photographs about Tibetan culture for jumbotron screens.

The Dalai Lama and monks conducting Kalachakra rituals onstage.

Receiving a blessing from the Dalai Lama. Photo by Tenzin Choejor.

Inside the media control room

Preparing the next day's playlist backstage

Eva Lee's animation The Liminal Series is now available for sale through Tribeca Film Institute's Reframe Collection website. Other titles to come soon!

Artsfest Film Festival, Eva Lee's animation Winter's Veil screens, along with 40 films from around the world, May 27-30, 2011, Harrisburg, PA.

Digital09: Mysteries in Science, The Science Exchange Building, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2011, Febrary 7 - April 30, 2011, Adelaide, Australia.

Below: Eva Lee's animation Lux Flux premieres on the new Portal at Curtis Hixon Park, commissioned by City of Tampa for the biennial public art event Lights on Tampa 2011, February 19th, 2011.

Above: Lights on Tampa 2011, view of new Portal, the first of twelve planned for installation along the Riverwalk. The event hosted an enthusiastic crowd who came to enjoy site-specific public art created by national and international artists. On left, Tampa Museum's LED light installation on facade by Leo Villereal.

Above: Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio (center) with artists Molly Schwartz and Eva Lee at Lights on Tampa 2011. Robin Nigh, manager of the Art Programs Divison for the City of Tampa, together with Mayor Iorio's support, created this award-winning biennial public art event.

NEWS & EVENTS 2010

Eva Lee returns from India where she conducted research on and filmed Tibetan art and meditative practices. She also attended a Mind & Life Institute conference on the scientific study of the effect of contemplative practice on human biology and behavior. She is currently working on new animations. Made possible by the generous support of the Asian Cultural Council.

Above: Spectators look on as monks work on sand mandala during Yamantaka rituals at His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama's Namgyal Monastery, Dharamsala, India. October 21-31, 2010. Photo © 2010, Eva Lee.

Above: His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama and former Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Mind & Life Institute conference, November 20-23, 2010, New Delhi, India. Photo© 2010, Eva Lee.

Above: Artist Eva Lee at Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya, India.

Grey Area, The Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism Gallery, November 19, 2010 - January 21, 2011, Hartford, CT.

Mind Sets, The Gallery at Haskins Laboratories, October 6, 2010 - January 28, 2011, New Haven, CT. Artists and scientists in a collaborative initiative presented by The Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Featured artists include Fritz Horstman, Zachary Keeting, Lucy Kim, Eva Lee, Martha Lewis, Laura Marsh, Kim Mikenis, Carol Padberg, Dushko Petrovich, Cuyler Remick, Matt Sargent, Bill Solomon, Susan Classen-Sullivan and Paul Theriault. Curated by Cat Balco and Debbie Hesse with Curatorial Assistant Steven Olsen. Closing talk by Zachary Keeting, Martha Lewis, Eva Lee, and Kim Mikenis on January 28, 12:30pm. Catalogue

Below: Digital '09: Mysteries in Science, presented by ASCI.org, travels to Carol Shen Gallery, Packer Collegiate Institute, Oct 5-Nov 19, 2010. Opening reception, Oct 5, 5-6pm.

Eva Lee is guest speaker for Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum's New World Kids program, July 28, 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

Eva Lee is Mind & Life Summer Research Institute Research Fellow, attends Scientific and Contemplative Perspectives on Self.

Above: Scientific and Contemplative Perspectives on Self, Mind & Life Summer Research Institute, June 7-13, 2009, Garrison, NY.

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.

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