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Lee Maelzer, January 21 - February 19 2006

Lee Maelzer's filmic paintings of cities, landscapes and interiors are carefully worked and layered. Often there is a brooding mystery and a hidden other story to unfold, if certain visual clues and cyphers can be understood. Buildings belch smoke, crash in to the sea or are torn apart in apocryphal ways. In other paintings simple observations are beautifully observed - the way of seeing and language developed creates an interdependence which makes the artist own her subject and the subject in turn control her inescapably.

Her paintings, seemingly both nostalgic and traditional, have a sting in the tail, offering a contemporary vision of the world told with traditional and technical craft. The observation of Vuillard with the realities of today.

A graduate from The Royal College of Art, she has work in international collections and she has exhibited widely in Britain in group shows such as the prestigious John Moores painting exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, the BP Portrait Award, the Hunting Art Prizes and in Germany, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, New York and Switzerland. She has carried out residences abroad including an Arts Council of England Residency in Colima, Mexico and the Abbey Fellowship at the British School in Rome.

This is her second solo show of paintings in London.

 
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