Patrick Lee: Inventions and Observations

Patrick Lee’s exhibition "Inventions and Observations" includes both large oil paintings and smaller drawings in acrylic. In describing his work, Patrick Lee says “I enjoy working with design, which is to say that I like using shape, pattern, color, and pictorial space to create an image which becomes a recreation and a recombining of the outer, perceptual and inner, conceptual worlds. I let my feelings and ideas about the subject guide my compositional choices, determining in large part what elements will be emphasized, exaggerated, simplified, or left out completely.  My process involves starting with a loose, abstract collection of colors and shapes which I apply to the canvas, scrape down, manipulate, and respond to in a back and forth progression.

I'm interested in creating images that, although having their basis in outward reality, share more of an affinity with the world of imagination, memories, and dreams.”

 Patrick Lee grew up in Western Pennsylvania and attended Edinboro University, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting with an Art History minor. Lee has participated in many group and solo exhibitions, including Plein Air painting events like Plein Air Easton and Wayne Plein Air and has been an adjunct professor of art at Allegheny Community College for the past several years.