ADAM LEE
Dry Bones, Crying Stones
26 August – 23 September 2023

STATION | SYDNEY

STATION is delighted to present Dry Bones, Crying Stones, Adam Lee’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. Interweaving stories of imagination, memory and spirituality, Lee’s new suite of paintings investigate the human condition and interpersonal relationships.

Continuing his exploration of the evolution of human life, Lee moves between the natural world, the afterlife, the imagined and the tangible. These shifts trigger the viewer to consider the journey between these fluid landscapes, confusing the perception of what is real and what is imagined.

Lee uses rich shades of oranges and pinks, bleeding into blues and greys, to create abstract maps. Figures peer in and out of the viewer’s sight, blending through washes of colour and shade, revealing the fragility and tenderness of relationships.

In his exhibition text, writer and curator David Hansen explains: “Lee abstracts and makes visible deeper, more traumatic notions of lamentation, of illumination, of transfiguration. There is an unembarrassed, tough minded, unsentimental devotional or sacramental dimension in these works”.

Installation Views

Artworks

Adam Lee
If You See Me, Weep 2023
oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas
200.0 x 300.0 cm

Adam Lee
Dry Bones, Crying Stones 2023
oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas
240.0 x 180.0 cm

Adam Lee
God Ghost 2023
oil on canvas
210.0 x 160.0 cm

Adam Lee
Hunger Stone 2023
oil on linen on board
38.5 x 25.0 cm

Adam Lee
Colony 2023
oil on canvas on board
36.5 x 27.5 cm

Adam Lee
Phantom 2023
oil on linen on board
44.0 x 30.5 cm

Adam Lee
Dove Tree 2023
oil on canvas on board
29.5 x 20.5 cm

Adam Lee
Jezebel 2023
oil on canvas on board
33.5 x 20.5 cm

Adam Lee
Flute 2023
oil on canvas on board
41.0 x 29.0 cm

Adam Lee
Map 2023
oil on linen on board
64.5 x 42.5 cm

Adam Lee
Spectre 2023
oil on linen on board
39.0 x 27.5 cm

Adam Lee
Orbital 2023
oil on canvas on board
55.0 x 34.0 cm

Adam Lee
Mask 2023
oil on linen on board
42.0 x 54.5 cm