Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Lee Musgrave
An interview by and
, curator
, curator
Artist Lee Musgrave ' s work is a channel of communication between abstraction and reality: while his photography is considered abstract it is actually completely realistic. Encapsulating a careful attention to composition and balance, his works suggest spontaneity and walks the viewers through an unconventional aesthetic journey. In his Light Ring Caress series, that we ' ll be discussing in the following pages, he has captured the ephemeral qualiy of light, materializing it into a coherent unity and accomplishing the difficult task of providing the viewers of a multilayered experience in the liminal area in which experience and imagination converge to a unexpected still consistent point of convergence. We are very pleased to introduce our readers to his multifaceted and stimulating artistic production.
Hello Lee and welcome to LandEscape: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background? You have a solid formal training and you hold a Master of Arts, that you received from the California State University, Los Angeles: you also nurtured your education studying with Hans Burkhardt and Fritz Faiss, who studied at the Bauhaus with Paul Klee and
Wassily Kandinsky. How do these experiences influenced your evolution as an artist? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general?
Fritz and Hans were more than my favorite art professors, they were my friends. We were allies in our mutual search for self-expression; in our joint celebrations when discovering and sharing new forms of artistic creation; and in respecting our short-comings and imperfections. Observing how they both pushed themselves forward in the ever changing atmosphere of the art world, how