Exhibitions

EMILY LEE: BLACKBERRY

Neue Welt / 507 Hagan St. August 2 - 31st

Emily Lee

Neue Welt is pleased to present Emily Lee: Blackberry.

Through a site-specific installation of one photograph and one sculpture, the work is a meditation on loss—low language fails to capture lived experience, and how meaning blooms in its absence.

Emily Lee (b. 1996 in Beaumont, TX) is artist, writer, and community organizer from Texas Gulf Coast.

In her work, she reactivates the form and materiality of objects whose physicality is often overlooked in today’s flattened conditions. Working large, at the scale of the human body and its architectures, Lee creates with the goal of evading both language and image. She works across a wide range of media because she finds it useful to approach the work’s material with the awareness of a novice.

Lee believes sculpture is a social apparatus that can instill patience for discomfort and tolerance for the inconclusive in both the artist and the viewer.

Lee has exhibited in Texas and New York, including the Fort Worth Modern (Fort Worth), the Visual Arts Center (Austin), Jonathan Hopson Gallery (Houston), Sweet Pass Sculpture Park (Dallas), Co-Lab Projects (Austin), and 5-50 Gallery (LIC, NY) amongst others.

She has participated in residencies at Land Arts of the American West, Sweet Pass Sculpture School, and Bunker Projects. Her writing has been published in print by French & Michigan, Southwest Contemporary, and Limn. In 2021, she founded a neighborhood DIY space called All the Sudden (ATS) in Austin, TX.

Lee received a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Art History Honors from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019, and is an alumna of the Marchutz School of Fine Art.

Emily Lee: Blackberry opens Saturday, August 2nd 5-9 PM, during the Wedgewood-Houston Art Crawl.