Eastside

Zenobia Lee: Démesuré

Sea View

1300 N Orange Dr

Los Angeles, CA 90028

On view Feb 21 - Mar 28

Wednesday - Saturday, 11am-5pm

Artist(s)

Zenobia Lee

Démesuré is Zenobia Lee’s debut solo exhibition at Sea View. The sculptural works enlarge objects such as dominos, parasols, drapery, flora, and stilts to examine colonial modernity and Caribbean diasporic histories. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s writing, Lee reconfigures architectural and vernacular forms through shifts in scale, rust patina, and aluminum casting, positioning minor materials as sites of cultural survival and transformation.

Selected Works

Zenobia Lee

enobia (b. 1996, New York, NY) is a Los Angeles based artist whose sculpture-based practice seeks for clarity and meaning residing within a particular object or material. Rooted in the enduring colonial histories of the Caribbean and its diaspora, her work traces the ways queerness, the homoerotic, and desire take shape-how they persist, shift, flatten. Drawing from personal narratives and symbolic archetypes, she considers what becomes of chaos when it reverberates and recycles across time. Sculpting is veiling, while veiling becomes sculpting. Clarity is made more visible by its relation to other objects. Zenobia has previously held a two person exhibition at Deli Gallery, New York, NY as well as group exhibitions at Chozick Family Art Gallery, New York, NY; Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA; and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY. Zenobia is in the public collection of North Carolina State Historic Sites and Properties.