Lee Musgrave
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
of computers it is increasing daily … so it is imperative that we all increase our abilities to relate to and understand abstract visual images.
Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing your thoughts, Lee. Finally, would you like to tell us readers something about your future projects? How do you see your work evolving?
This is perhaps the most difficult question for me to answer for I have many projects in progress and dozens of others I’ d like to start. Let me begin by telling you about some of the ones I am actively working on: 1. I’ ve been trying to incorporate some reverse gestural painting-on-glass with some of my current light pad photography. It’ s turning out to be harder to do well than it sounds. 2. I’ ve been working on an 8 ft. x 5 ft. painting from my Real Time Memories Series for over a year and finishing it is challenging. The painting is about our relationship to water and soil erosion. 3. While I’ ve had many solo exhibits and my work is usually in two or three group exhibits each year, I would like to have another solo featuring at least three of my most recent abstract photography series. Presenting solo exhibits generates a great deal of feed-back and that’ s a good thing for artists. However, convincing a gallery to schedule a solo exhibit for you takes considerable socializing and schmoozing. 4. And of course, I have dozens of photo series that need to be completed and archived.
In addition to my studio activities, I’ ve completed writing a murder mystery novel set in the art community of present day Los Angeles. It is now being professionally edited and when that’ s done I have to decide on whether to submit it to a traditional publisher or to turn it into an e-book and publish it myself. In the mean time I’ ve gone ahead and begun writing the second novel in the series.
To me, having choices in what I do and want to do makes for a happy life.