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Biography

Aaryn Lee is an interdisciplinary artist working in drawing/mark making, mixed-media, printmaking, installation, projection, time-based media, and performance. Her work tends to be heavily layered, repetitive in nature, somber in mood, and touched with the muted overcast tones from her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Aaryn seeks to better perceive herself while simultaneously reconnecting her body and mind through a somatic approach to making. Themes investigated in her work relate to memory, ritual, body dysmorphia, the female body, and meditation. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Art: Art History with a Studio Concentration in Printmaking, Cum Laude, in 2012 from Portland State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art in 2022 from Lesley Art + Design, where she was a recipient of the Stauch-Mosse Merit Scholarship.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• M.F.A., Visual Art, Lesley Art + Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2022
• B.A., Art: Art History with Studio Concentration, Cum Laude, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 2012

Exhibitions & Presentations

• Solo Exhibition, Leo Reynolds Gallery, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, Alabama, 2022
• Solo Exhibition, Marks, Movements, and Mirrors with Meaning, Salmon Library Gallery, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, 2022
• Artist Talk, Lesley Art + Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2022

Expertise

• Drawing
• Mixed Media
• Interdisciplinary Arts