Liz Lee works to be exhibited, published

Liz Lee's "A New Leaf Series: Obsession," which will be included in Robert Hirsch’s Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels, Fifth Edition, and is to be published by Elsevier’s Focal Press this fall.

While on sabbatical for the 2009-2010 academic year, Liz Lee, professor of photography in the visual arts and new media department at SUNY Fredonia, has been part of some extraordinary and exciting personal and professional activities.

Images from Lee’s A New Leaf Series will be exhibited in “Photography and Literature: Light Writing” at the New Image Gallery at James Madison University, in Harrisonburg, VA. The exhibition, which will take place April 5 through April 30, aims to explore the connection between the literature of words and the literature of photography.

A New Leaf Series will also be exhibited at the 20th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. The theme of the exhibition is “Virginia Woolf and the Natural World,” and will be shown at the Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery in Georgetown, KY, from May 13 through June 9. This year’s theme coincides with the annual international conference and takes its cue this year from Woolf’s life and writing, in particular, her experimental novel The Waves. The exhibition was curated by Dr. Juilee Decker, Chair of the Art Department at Georgetown College, and includes works from 13 national and international artists.

Lee will also be serving as Juror for Photos with Words, an exhibition at the Vermont PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, VT. The theme is, “A photo is purported to be worth a thousand words. As visual images, photos communicate on multiple levels in complex ways. But what happens when words are part of a photograph? How can images and text communicate in connected, parallel, or divergent ways? This juried exhibition will explore the man ways in which photographs can incorporate words and the meanings that can result from such combinations.”

Lee also has two images, Grassroots (the shun series): Homeland Terrorism and A New Leaf Series: Obsession, which will be included in Robert Hirsch’s Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels, Fifth Edition, and is to be published by Elsevier’s Focal Press this fall.

Furthermore, Lee has also exhibited images from A New Leaf Series in a show at the Foundry Art Center in St. Charles, Missouri, titled “Fusion: Art and Science.” This exhibition recently occurred from December 26, 2009 through February 5, 2010. Lee won a juror’s award and will be exhibiting a body of work in a solo show at the Foundry in September 2012.