About
Bio
Born Lee Bishop Jenkins in Monroe, NC in 1966, Lee was raised moving from town to town in the state and then spent her teen years in Winston-Salem. She is based in the Western US and is currently in Southeast Asia.
Trained in traditional figurative styles of painting, drawing, and photography, Lee's more recent and current work focuses more on the experimental, abstract, and expressive. Her work in drawing, photography, and video/short film has been exhibited in the US and Europe. She is now creating new work in painting and mixed media.
As a young person, Lee's art and crafts were exhibited and won awards, and in her teens she illustrated zines and created punk rock t-shirts. She has written about art and film for blogs, taught elementary school kids about art history and drawing, and led Meetup group drawing and film viewing field trips and discussions. She has also created, curated, and organized online projects of other artists' works.
Statements
"My practice for work and life sometimes involves detaching from mental processes and even emotion in order to allow a freely flowing and more natural experience for whatever comes up. This can result in some different types of abstract, minimal, or surreal work. I sometimes call work I do experimental or just experiments because that's what they were for me at the time or that is how they were categorized by others. If I were to choose a specific term for my art, I would consider a lot of it to be informel and often intuitive or automatism."
"My work does not include the use of AI except occasionally in some editing features such as background remover, erase, or grab which I sometimes use for experimental videos, digital art, or preparing print files. My drawing, painting, photography, and writing is otherwise AI-free and human produced."
Selected Group Shows / Screenings
2010 Strasbourg International Film Festival, Strasbourg, France
The Berlin International Directors Lounge, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
2009 Abstracta: International Abstract Cinema Exhibition, Isola Del Cinema, Rome, Italy
ARKUFF: Arkansas Underground Film Festival, The Malco Theatre, Hot Springs National Park, AR
FIFE: The International Experimental Film Fesitval Carbunari, Florean Museum, Baia Mare, Romania
2008 Zero Film Festival, Studio 1636 and Downtown Independent, Los Angeles
OCULI Experimental Film Showcase, Bottega Gallery, Wilmington, NC
Town of Chapel Hill Community Art Project, Carrboro Town Hall, Carrboro, NC
1983 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Elliot Center at University of North Carolina Greensboro, NC
Selected Honors
2025 Honorable Mention, arthouse category, Absurd Film Festival Monthly Jury, Italy
1983 Gold Key, Scholastic Art Awards, NC (regional)
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