Ashes to ashes dust to dust
2018 Mixed Media (pebbles, various paper scraps and acrylic on canvas) 48 x 36 inches ---------------------------- After taking a break from his previous work and styles, Lee began searching for a new esthetics and methods of painting. Lee was fed up with the many mixed comments he heard from when he was exhibiting at art fairs. Lee felt that it was distracting and unhelpful. In this new work, Lee returns to darker morbid tones that reminisce the day when we will all return to dust. |
Volcano on Santorini
2016 Acrylic on Canvas 32 x 40 inches --------------------------
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Sodom and Gomorrah (Sin and the City)
2014 Acrylic on Canvas 24 x 32 inches -------------------- EXHIBITED
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(December 6, 2014)People tend to only see the surface of this work, but if you watch closely, you see the silhouettes of the city depicted by four pillars. Only a shadow of the city remains behind the burning fire and sulfur sent down under God 's wrath. ".....23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26 But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. 27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace. 29 So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived. 23太陽出來的時候,羅得到了瑣珥。24突然,上主使燃燒著的硫磺從天上降落在所多瑪和蛾摩拉城。25他毀滅了這兩個城、整個平原、所有人口,以及長在地上的一切植物。26羅得的妻子回頭觀看,就變成一根鹽柱。27第二天一早,亞伯拉罕到了他在上主面前站立過的那地方。28他俯視所多瑪、蛾摩拉,和整個平原,看見地面上冒著煙,像大火爐冒出來的煙。29但是,當上帝毀滅平原二城時,他記念亞伯拉罕,所以准許羅得逃命。****( Genesis 創世紀 19:23-29) |
Waves on Jupiter No.2
2017 Acrylic on Canvas 36 x 48 inches ------------------- EXHIBITED:
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Volcano on Atlantis
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Ophelia
2015 Acrylic on Canvas 32 x 24 inches ------------------------------------------------------- Painted as a tribute to Norwegian artist- Edvard Munch's painting, "The Scream" and British artist- Sir John Everett Millais's "Ophelia." The dull colors swirl violently as the individual screams as if he or she is drowning in something. One can interpret the individual sinking under the green marsh. The victim is in deep anguish and emotionally disturbed. -------------------------------------- EXHIBITED
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Dante's Purgatorio
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Dante's Inferno
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Deck the halls with lots of tinsel
2014 Acrylic on Canvas 24 x 32 inches ---------------------------------------
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Bamboo Forest (SOLD)
2014 Acrylic on Canvas 32 x 40 inches ----------------------- COLLECTION:
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Winter Storm (Air, sky and earth)
2014 Acrylic on Canvas 24 x 32 inches ------------------------------------------------------- EXHIBITED
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亞馬遜 Amazonia,
2014 acrylic on canvas 24 x 32 inches ------------------------ EXHIBITED
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Fireworks,
2014 acrylic on canvas 24 x 32inches ---------------------- EXHIBITED
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生 命 樹 The Tree of Life
2013 Acrylic on canvas 24 x 28 inches --------------------------------------------------- EXHIBITED
---------------------------------------------- "...Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 耶 和 華 神 使 各 樣 的 樹 從 地 裡 長 出 來 、 可 以 悅 人 的 眼 目 、 其 上 的 果 子 好 作 食 物 . 園 子 當 中 又 有 生 命 樹 、 和 分 別 善 惡 的 樹 ." ****(創 世 紀 Genesis 2:9) "Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life. 耶 和 華 神 說 、 那 人 已 經 與 我 們 相 似 、 能 知 道 善 惡 . 現 在 恐 怕 他 伸 手 又 摘 生 命 樹 的 果 子 喫 、 就 永 遠 活 著 . 耶 和 華 神 便 打 發 他 出 伊 甸 園 去 、 耕 種 他 所 自 出 之 土 。 於 是 把 他 趕 出 去 了 . 又 在 伊 甸 園 的 東 邊 安 設 基 路 伯 、 和 四 面 轉 動 發 火 焰 的 劍 、 要 把 守 生 命 樹 的 道 路 。" ****(創 世 紀 Genesis 3:22-24) |
月门 The Moon Gate
2012 軟乾粉彩/ 塑膠彩 Soft Pastels and acrylic 29.7 x 42 cm ------------------------ EXHIBITED
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逮捕 The Arrest #1
2011 油蠟筆,記號筆,彩色鉛筆Oil Pastels, marker pen and colored pencils 29.7 x 42 cm ---------------- EXHIBITED
If all 3 legendary American abstract expressionist painters "Willem de Kooning", "Mark Rothko", "Jackson Pollock" were stuck in a room with the famous 1602 painting "The Taking of Christ (Cattura di Cristo)" by (1571-1610) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, what would they say on paper? |
Frida
2014 Markers on paper 11.5"x 7.5" --------------------------------------------------- EXHIBITED
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A Rainbow Affair
2014 Oil Pastels and marker on paper 7.5" x 11.5" --------------------------------------------------- EXHIBITED
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dimension variable © 2007-2014 C. Kenneth Lee, all rights reserved Literature: Photography still from original illustration from news article <Classical Music, 'Now That's Hot!"> drawn and article written by C. Lee. Originally published in USA San Diego local newspaper on June 1, 2007. Article re-released in Lee's book (2010) Selected Poems, Articles & Short Stories (book sold on AMAZON.com, BARNES and NOBLES Booksellers and other stores globally. Classical Music, 'Now That's Hot !", 2007 |
TV #1, 2014
Colored pencil and pencil on paper 21 x 27.7cm --------------------------------------------- I've always imagined If i ever had 15 minutes to create a slide for storyboard for a TV episode, it may look like this? In 2013 I actually got to appear in my 3rd TV acting cameo in an Asian TV Series. I have never actually seen the storyboards. But imagine that I didn't have to do it for TV and that I could do it backwards...TV episode coming first before the storyboard, yikes! right? |