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The quiet and contemplative work of Jennifer Lee evokes stillness and solitude. Her hand-formed vessels, carefully colored with oxides, project a purity of form and clarity of purpose. These are intimate ceramic works that retain a sense of personal poetry and tremendous presence.
One light-bodied piece, with its small foot and slightly curving silhouette, shows her extraordinary sensitivity to the vessel form. The considered curvature of this pale pot is soft, yet strong. The parchment-like surface provides a tactile clue to the maker and the material, its texture a reminder of the many passes of the hand and the distillation of time. The speckled trace of oxide, which has been fused into the clay, continues on the inside of the piece, uniting and animating the interior with the exterior.
A darker and more open form shows Lee’s use of banding, haloes and painterly color. Nature, perhaps the dry desert landscape or the sedimentation in geologic forms, seems to be a source. The laminations of subtle color, like growth rings on a tree, are balanced with open areas and spots. Jennifer Lee’s haloed traces and subtle transitions bleed and blend, one band into another. Here the viewer can see the artist’s fully developed method of coloration. She does not use glaze, but mixes the metallic oxides into the stoneware clay body before hand-building the pot.
Jennifer Lee was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1956. She lives and works in London. Jennifer Lee has had retrospective exhibitions of her work at the Rohsska Musset in Goteborg and Aberdeen Museum and Art Gallery. Her work is represented in major public collections worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where she exhibited in Clay into Art, 1999. She is also represented in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and her work was included in the traveling exhibition Color and Fire, 2000.
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Education
1979 Edinburgh College of Art, Dip AD
1980 Traveling Scholarship to the USA
1983 Royal College of Art, London, MA RCA
Museum Collections
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums
Buckinghamshire County Museum
Cleveland Studio Pottery Collection, Middlesborough
Contemporary Art Society, London
Crafts Council Collection, London
Europäisches Kunst Handwerk Landesgerwerbeamt, Stuttgart
Glasgow Museum and Art Galleries
Hawkes Bay Art Gallery and Museum, Napier, New Zealand
Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Leeds City Art Gallery
Long Beach Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Musee Bellerive, Zurich
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
National Museum of Sweden, Stockholm
Norwich Castle Museum
Peters Foundation, London
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Röhsska Konstslöjdmuseet, Göteborg
Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Scottish Collection, SDA, Edinburgh
Scripps College, Claremont, California
Thamesdown Collection, Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
Trustees Savings Bank Collection, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2008 Galerie Besson, London
2006 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2003 Galerie Besson, London
2002 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2000 Galerie Besson, London
1999 James Graham & Sons, New York
1998 Focus, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
1997 Galerie Besson, London
1996 James Graham & Sons, New York
1995 Galerie Besson, London
1994 Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums
Osiris, Brussels
1993 Galleri Lejonet, Stockholm
Röhsska Konstslöjdmuseet, Göteborg
1992 Gallerie Besson, London
Gallery Lejonet, Stockholm
Röhsska Konstslöjdmuseet, Göteborg
1991 Graham Gallery, New York
1990 Galerie Besson, London
1987 Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Crafts Council
City Art Gallery, Leeds, Craft Centre and Design Gallery
1986 Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Craft Centre
1985 Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Rosenthal Studio-Haus, London
1984 Anatol Orient, London
1981 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
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