Catherine Lee

Catherine Lee (born 1950 in Pampa, Texas) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. Her works, featuring repetitive forms in various materials (including canvas, bronze, iron, glass, and ceramics) have been described as minimalist and structuralist.

Biography Lee grew up in Pampa, Texas. She studied at San Jose State University in San Jose, California, where she earned a bachelor's degree in studio art in 1974. Lee was married to abstract artist Sean Scully from 1978 to 1998. She lived in New York City for 32 years and returned to Texas in late 1990s, settling in the Hill Country near Austin. Some of her work is currently held and can be seen in the collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Some of her sculptures are also available for purchase on Artnet. She creates both paintings and sculptures, but doesn't have a preference for one over the other. She thinks of painting as more emotionally engaging, whereas she thinks of sculpture-making as problem-solving. She often utilizes black and monochrome colors in her works because she appreciates the hostility these colors can bring to each piece. Her work Unica 39 (1987), an "abstract monotype in color", is a part of the permanent exhibition in the Tate Gallery. Lee's favored method of making ceramic artwork is Raku due to the original and how it is highly impossible to reproduce the same result again.

Teaching Lee has taught at Princeton University (1980), Rochester Institute of Technology (1982), the University of Texas at San Antonio (1983) and (2000), and Columbia University (1986–1987).

Collections Indianapolis Museum of Art Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Tate Gallery, London The Metropolitan Opera, Museum of Modern Art Lora Reynolds gallery

Solo exhibitions A list of Catherine Lee's exhibitions taken from the book Catherine Lee, the Alphabet Series and Other Works by the Pamela Auchincloss Gallery. She spent the majority of her career living and working in New York, NY.