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ADELANTE GALLERY - Lee Musgrave

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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Lee Musgrave at work

LEE MUSGRAVE

‘Abstract Photography Today: Taking Advantage of Chance’ 
consists of photographs that are reminiscent of abstract 
painting and that provide an opportunity for the viewer to 
embrace unpredictability within an approach that values 
intuition and expressionism. 

The exhibition presents several images from three separate 
Series. Each print is 16”x20”, framed under plexi and ready to 
hang. It also includes a comprehensive text panel about 
vernacular abstraction mounted on 18”x24” foam-core. 

My photographs are abstract images created by cropping 
photographs of repurposed used art supplies. They merge 
random occurrence with conscious creation in pursuit of 
elegance within chaos. 

Kinetics is a key element in the assembling of my subjects, for 
in my studio process assorted fragments of paper, bits of 
dried paint, and pieces of used plastic containers, along with 
an assortment of small scraps are tossed onto a light pad 
allowing them to fall where they may. 

After photographing these randomly assembled objects, 
cropping the resulting images is my conscious way of 
featuring their individual charisma. 

Further, I favor a visual language that explores and refines 
the shallow picture plane and cropping accentuates that 
preference. Like the inherent qualities found in all 
contemporary abstract art, my photographs often appear 
starkly linear, richly textured and/or almost painterly… and 
yet they highlight an ephemeral world that reflects upon 
something vulnerable while speaking to the very nature of 
our existence. 

Except for minor modifications in contrast or hue the only 
computer processes applied to the photographs is the 
occasional cloning over of small distractive or reflective spots.


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Lee Musgrave lives in High Prairie, Washington. He is the 
recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 
and his work has been exhibited in numerous solo and 
group exhibitions; are in the City of Portland, Portable Works 
Collection and the Washington Arts Commission, Art In 
Public Places Collection, amongst others. Recently, he was 
selected from an international list of 105 artists as one of six 
finalists for the 6th Edition of the Pollux Awards / Abstract 
Photography Series.

Recent Solo Exhibitions: 2014 – Metro Gallery, Reno, NV 2011 
- Cafritz Gallery, Sitar Arts Center, Washington DC 2006 – 
Cascade Art Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, 
OR 2005 – Kent Arts Commission Gallery, Kent, WA 2004 – 
Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, 
OR 2003 – Marghitta Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR 1992 – 
Ersgard Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Recent Group Exhibitions: 
2015 – The Big Picture, Denver, CO 2014 - Accreted Terrane, 
Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA 2014 – The 
Contaminated Landscape, Photosynthesis Gallery, 
Manchester, CT 2014 - Snow & Ice, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, 
CA 2013 – Visiting Artist Nov. & Dec., Studio F Gallery, Seattle, 
WA 2013 - Nature Undisturbed, Serenbe Photography Center, 
Palmetto, GA

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