Broadway is pleased to announce Whistling Past the Grave, its second solo exhibition of new paintings by New York artist Mickey Lee.
Populated with fantastical animal/woman hybrids and various beasts of illogical anatomy and comportment, Lee’s oblique allegorical narratives are rooted in the alluring strangeness of folktales and mythology. As such, they sit at the nexus of Modernism, Outsider, and faux-naif traditions and conjure a peculiar collision of innocence and experience. For example, in Village Giants a cluster of Amazonian nudes stands fitted with the heads of various animals—rabbit, horse, dog, bull, and cat. The image mingles power and docility in a tidy parable/critique of representation.
