Liquid Sunshine

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Education

1989
Masters of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

1989
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1985
Bachelors of Fine Arts, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY

1980
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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BIOGRAPHY

Lee Boroson lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Upcoming exhibitions include Esther Massry Gallery, The College at St. Rose, Albany, NY, and GLOW, Santa Monica, CA. His has had solo exhibition at various venues including The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Artspace, New Haven, CT; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE and The Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York. Boroson has received numerous awards including grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Professional Development Grants from the Rhode Island School of Design. He received a MFA from Indiana University, a BFA from State University of New York, New Paltz and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Professional positions include Visiting Professor, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, Lecturer in the Committee on Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, and sculpture Associate at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
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source: leeboroson

“Liquid Sunshine”, 2006, dimensions variable, nylon, monofilament, stainless steel, hardware, blower. Installed at Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY. Lucky Storm uses some overt references to Hudson River School landscape painting. The title refers to a radium laced “cure-all” marketed in the 1920s.
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Universal Solvent, an exhibition of new works by Lee Boroson. This is the artistÂ’s second solo presentation at the gallery.

In this new body of work Lee Boroson considers cultural influences on our perception of the natural world. He views landscape as a construct, a very particular point of reference to view nature. With a deep interest in the Hudson River School painters and their attempt to capture nature, his interests lie in issues of denial, appropriation and ownership as they relate to representation and current environmental concerns. The works in Universal Solvent consider the containment of landscape through the sculptural representation of elemental forces, reassembling these components in one environment. By choosing subjects that are not conducive to being sculpture – water, ice, and smoke – he confronts the impossible task of capturing natural phenomena that are visually real, yet substantively ineffable, transient or evanescent.

Lee Boroson lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work will be included in upcoming exhibitions at Esther Massry Gallery, The College at St. Rose, Albany, NY and Santa Monica, CA. He has had solo exhibition at various venues including The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Artspace, New Haven, CT; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE and The Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York. Boroson has received numerous awards including grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Professional Development Grants from the Rhode Island School of Design. He received a MFA from Indiana University, a BFA from State University of New York, New Paltz and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.