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Artist Statement:
You all know the Shakespearian
line, "nothing will come of
nothing," right? A seemingly
simple line really. "Nothing
will come of nothing." Sure!
This is King Lear's response
to his loving daughter,
Cordelia's refusal to voice
her love for her father for
the sake of topping her
sisters' ridiculously
competitive praises.
But in this first scene of the
play, Lear is greatly mistaken
in his math. This plot-driving
miscalculation Shakespeare
emphasises by a negation of
status, reducing the old king
to a Fool's fool. A great deal
comes about from that first
"nothing." A wake of human
drama, disinheritance,
deception and seduction, greed
and revenge, madness, and
death lies within those pages
as proof. So, "nothing will
come of nothing" has an
alchemical
esotery to it.
To me, this makes a fine
analogy for the tradition of
painting. In painting you have
a canvas, or panel, or
whatever surface you are
working with… the side of a
beached whale, whatever it
might be. From the point of
visual intrigue or physiology,
nothing. Then the painter
takes his pigments and their
respective vehicles, his
tools, his brushes, and
through a process of eye to
hand prowess he ...
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Exhibitions for Lee Roswell:
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2008...
-Stills Are Still Moving, Gallery Three, San Francisco, CA
-The Red Dot Fair (curated by Justin Giarla) NYC
-Mugshots, Acident Gallery Eureka, CA
-New Brow (curated by Justin Giarla) Monterey, CA
2007...
-A Minute and an Hour (group show), Fool's Foundation, Sacramento, CA
-Chillin's 9th Anniversary Party, the Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA
-Erotic Show, Accident Gallery, Eureka, CA
-The Favorites Show, OuterEdge Studios, Monterey, CA
-Sea of Dreams New Year's party (group show), Concourse Center, San Francisco, CA
-Project Artist Connect (group show), Chez Poulet, San Francisco, CA
-Tripych Gallery (three man show), San Francisco, CA
2006...
-111 at 111 (group show), 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA
-Best of SF (group show spearheaded by SF Weekly) , Ruby Skye, San Francisco, CA
-Leftovers (group show), Tangent Gallery, Witchita, KS
-Slapstick (solo show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-Live 12 Hour Painting (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-Chillin Productions (group show), various events, San Francisco, CA
-With David Hilman (two-man show), Crockett Contemporary Art Gallery, Crockett, CA
-Cheesecake (group show), Commerce Gallery, Witchita, KS
-The Dirty Show (group show), Detroit, MI
-Group Show, Forge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-Portrait Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-Frank Chu Palooza (group show), San Francisco, CA
-Group Show, Lineage Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
-4th Annual Erotic Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San, CA
2005...
-The Red Paintings (13 Interpretations of Goya), the Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-Art Print (group show), Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-Chillin Productions (group show), various events, San Francisco, CA
-Wet Paint (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-3rd Annual Erotic Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-The Day in the Life of a Painting (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-Cine Delirio (four man show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004...
-Chillin Productions (group show), various events, San Francisco, CA
-Lee Harvey Roswell vs. Marco Almera (two man show), Shooting Gallery,
-San Francisco, CA
-Tokyo Monster Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-2nd Annual Erotic Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-Solo exhibit, Idle Hand Tattoo Studio, San Francisco, CA
-The Erotic Gunn Show (group show), Pawnbroker Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-Solo exhibit, The Element Lounge, San Francisco, CA
2003...
-Balazo Group Show, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-The Propaganda Show (group show), Studio Z, San Francisco, CA
-The Erotic Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-The Loin Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-Doctrine (group show), Lola Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-The Gun Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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