Charles Lee
On Brand (Sword of Damocles), 2024
Mid-century Spanish, colonial leather rocking chair, rope, found branding iron. Archival pigment print mounted on 3mm Di-Bond w/ Matte UV lamination and recessed aluminum back frame. Metal shelving and sconces.
35 x 120 x 9 inches variable
Edition variée of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
Charles Lee is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based between Cleveland and Oakland. With the use of photography, archives, assemblage, drawing, video, and installation, the interdisciplinarity of Lee’s work...
Charles Lee is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based between Cleveland and Oakland. With the use of photography, archives, assemblage, drawing, video, and installation, the interdisciplinarity of Lee’s work is a metaphor for what Blackness is; a stateless existence that is always in flux and at odds with categorization. It is a search for the sublime moment. The sublimity in the work lies in its impermanence, the labor-intensive making, and the work's personal nature. Lee’s work extrudes that which is universally experienced while simultaneously elucidating experiences that are culturally specific and challenge traditional Western epistemologies.
