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Deanna Lee
Deanna Lee
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Deanna Lee Artist Bio & Statement
“My work— in the form of paintings, drawings, site-specific installations, and public artworks— stems from patterns and traces of growth and transformation in the natural world and the built environment. Overall, I strive to delineate the emotional resonance that I see in forms made by natural forces.
My process includes making tracings and rubbings of surfaces like plywood, cracking plaster, and corroding metal. I think of these marks as the calligraphic signatures of quotidian natural effects and as personal interpretations of the material evidence of time. “
Deanna Lee was born in Carmel, New York, to parents who emigrated from China and Taiwan, and she was raised in suburban Boston. After many years of classical music training on several instruments, she received degrees in art from Oberlin College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she studied at the Rome campus of the Tyler School of Art.
Lee’s public artworks include a 700-foot-long mural on bicycle-path barriers in Flushing, Queens, commissioned by the NYC Department of Transportation; a custom design for tree guards in the Fort Greene and Clinton Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn; a storefront drawing installation in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; a billboard in Los Angeles; a mural on construction netting in L’Aquila, Italy; a painted sculpture in New Rochelle, New York; and a site-specific painting installation in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
She has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, a travel grant from the Asia Society in New York, the BRIC Media Fellowship in Brooklyn, the Manhattan Graphics Center Scholarship, the Linda Kramer Fellowship in Chicago, and two grants from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. She was a 2010 recipient of the Abbey Mural Fellowship from the National Academy. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Kingsbrae International Residence for the Arts in New Brunswick, Canada.
My process includes making tracings and rubbings of surfaces like plywood, cracking plaster, and corroding metal. I think of these marks as the calligraphic signatures of quotidian natural effects and as personal interpretations of the material evidence of time. “
Deanna Lee was born in Carmel, New York, to parents who emigrated from China and Taiwan, and she was raised in suburban Boston. After many years of classical music training on several instruments, she received degrees in art from Oberlin College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she studied at the Rome campus of the Tyler School of Art.
Lee’s public artworks include a 700-foot-long mural on bicycle-path barriers in Flushing, Queens, commissioned by the NYC Department of Transportation; a custom design for tree guards in the Fort Greene and Clinton Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn; a storefront drawing installation in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; a billboard in Los Angeles; a mural on construction netting in L’Aquila, Italy; a painted sculpture in New Rochelle, New York; and a site-specific painting installation in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
She has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, a travel grant from the Asia Society in New York, the BRIC Media Fellowship in Brooklyn, the Manhattan Graphics Center Scholarship, the Linda Kramer Fellowship in Chicago, and two grants from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. She was a 2010 recipient of the Abbey Mural Fellowship from the National Academy. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Kingsbrae International Residence for the Arts in New Brunswick, Canada.
