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BIOGRAPHY:
Eva Maria Lee, a native German, grew up in the small town of Parsberg in Bavaria. After earning a degree in Social Sciences from FH Regensburg she spent one year in Phoenix, AZ, where she was inspired to do her first artwork.
Back in Germany she began studying architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt which combined two of her strongest interests, engineering and art. Along with the theoretical part of engineering, her curriculum included hands-on internships at construction sites doing masonry and carpentry work as well as getting her first experience in an architect’s office. In art, the second pillar in architecture education she was trained in various techniques such as watercolor, drawing, pastels, collage and modelling. She worked as a teaching assistant for several semesters and graduated as “Diplom-Ingenieur Architektur” in 1985.
After receiving her degree Lee worked for architectural firms in the Frankfurt area until she started a family in 1988. She continued doing free-lance architecture work but also focused on art, especially painting. Starting in 1989, for several years she was a student of the contemporary artist Birgit Luxemburger in Mainz, who introduced her to large scale acrylic painting. At the same time she took classes in life drawing with the artist Dorothee Rocke in Frankfurt. Through classes, workshops and summer school as well as exploring on her own, Lee studied painting and developed her individual expression.
To emphasize her studies of art she went back to university from 1998-2001 majoring in art and American Studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt. She took a master painting course with Prof. Dr. Till Neu, which she completed in 2000.
From 2001 – 2003 Lee resumed working as an architect in a Frankfurt architecture firm until relocating to Newburyport, MA, USA in 2003.
She established a studio in Amesbury, MA in 2004 and has since then dedicated her time to focus on her work as a painter.
Eva Maria Lee has exhibited in Germany, England, France and the United States and her work is included in numerous collections in Europe and the US.
ABOUT HER WORK:
Eva M. Lee’s work is inspired by architectural concepts, especially Bauhaus ideas and influenced by expressionist painters such as Kandinsky, Muenter and Macke. In her work Lee is searching for simple and reduced shapes and decisive, often bold colour schemes, trying to capture and express the essential. She works with different surface structures, layering or open colour spaces. Her work is abstract even though many of her pieces might create visions of inner or outer landscapes. She doesn’t intend to represent but merely to suggest; therefore leaving it up to the viewers to find their own paths into the painting, their own views and their own images. “It makes me happy if my paintings speak to other people and create certain feelings and visions in them even if those are completely different from what I see in them. Different people with different backgrounds and preferences will see and feel differently when they look at the same object – that’s the freedom and the space I want to create with my work.”
SHOWS AND EVENTS:
2007 Group Show at Ferry Wharf Gallery in Newburyport, MA
2006 Amesbury Open Studios at Cedar Tree Development
2006 Featured Artist at Dream Farm Café in Hollis, NH,
musical soiree and art show
2005 Group show at CEANS Event, Cedar Tree Development,
Amesbury, MA
2005 Amesbury Open Studios at Cedar Tree Development
2005 Solo Exhibition at the Enrico Donati Gallery in Newburyport, MA
2005 Newburyport Artisans Open Studio Weekend Tour
2005 Group Show at the Merrimac Public Library in Merrimac, MA
2005 Featured Artist at “The Starving Artist Dinner”
Wild Bites in Amesbury,
Adelphia TV production
2004 to present: work shown at
Enrico Donati Gallery, Newburyport, MA, USA
2004 Solo Exhibition at Amesbury Artworks, MA, USA
2000 Group show at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany
1998 Solo Exhibition: Form + Colour at Reita Gadkari’s,
London, England
1997 Summer school painting in Provence, France, group show
1992 Group show in Studio Luxemburger, Mainz-Kastell, Germany