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CONTINUUM: Advancing Form Over Time — September 16 - November 14, 2010
Muskegon artist, Lee Brown, exhibits freestanding and wall sculpture created from wood, metal, stone,
glass, paint, and found objects. Pieces are inspired by the purely shaped masks, geometric patterns and totemic objects of
African art as well as earth forms and sacred relic containers.
From a beginning on two dimensional paths in illustration and graphic design, Lee S. Brown has moved forward into three dimensions
through product styling and design, boat building, sculpture and jewelry making. Fascination with form, invention and construction
drives his work, along with a reverence for history, symbolism and materials.
A deep affection for African art is evident in Brown’s work. The pure forms that shape masks, totemic objects, geometric pattern,
and their significance to the ritual function of objects. His Sentinel series recall devotee figures and fertility dolls.
Other pieces draw inspiration from earth forms, information laid down by geologic forces, time and weather, freeze and thaw cycles. In
the Reliquary series Brown celebrates the medieval concept of containers for sacred relics or in modern terms meaningful stuff.
Continuum suggests a personal history and progress of ideas, reinterpretations and repurposing of story and symbolic object.
Continuum: Advancing Form Over Time
On exhibit at the Design Gallery at Design Quest.
Technicolor Remains (in foreground)
Materials: Cedar, Steel, Acrylics, Wax
Steel celts pass thru the Polychrome Cedar creating a
skeletal fish form. The original idea was derived from Megalithic monuments and the childhood thought of “Digging a hole to China”.
Do Form Mask
Materials: Charred Wood, Wax
Charred wood accentuates the grain and softened texture of protruding pegs and
symbolic facial features of this mask. This piece is based on the shape of the West African Do Dance mask representing a humming bird
mixed with mask features of other cultures.
Henge Fragment Series
Materials: Cedar, Spruce, Enamel, Wax
A series of small sculptures based on the posts and lintels of Stonehenge. This series along with the portal series relates to passage ways or viewpoints.
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Portal II
Materials: Polychrome wood, Steel
The Portal series explores the idea of passageways from one space, time, dimension or existance to another.
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Barred Portal
Materials: Recycled White Pine, Cedar, Enamel, Wax
Artist explores the idea of passageways from one space, time, dimension or existance to another.
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Inner Secret (in foreground)
First of a series of columns with inner spaces. the door not clearly visible creates the effect of a secret
compartment . The construction is of Yellow Poplar, with oils, acrylics and wax creating a modulated surface with glowing red corners. Exhibited in 2008 MMA regional show.
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M2 and M3
Materials: Cedar (M2) or Basswood (M3), Enamel, Wax
Column series piece exploring surface texture and zig zag motif
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Dragon's Shadow Reliquary
Materials: Cedar, Enamel, Oil stain, Wax
A reliquary was in some traditions a container to hold sacred relics.
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Chamber With Nails
Materials: Cedar, Enamel, Found Objects, Steel, Wax
Horizontal pod form with Central African fetish like nail and bead embellishment. Inner Chamber is mirrored top and bottom with kaolin like surface on chamber walls and waxed cedar on inner planes.
Reliquary (VII) “horned”
Materials: Wood, Enamel, Wax
A reliquary was in some traditions a container to hold sacred relics.
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Reliquary (IV)
Materials: Wood, Enamel, Wax
A reliquary was in some traditions a container to hold sacred relics.
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Reliquary (V) triangular
Materials: Wood, Enamel, Wax
A reliquary was in some traditions a container to hold sacred relics.
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Bubble Star
Materials: Steel, powder coating, quartz movement
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Mirror Mirror
Materials: Pine, enamel, stain, wax, glass
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Paleo-Data Stream
Materials: Cedar, Enamel, Carved Cast Concrete
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