The Green Gallery is once again participating in June Basel, featuring new work by Margaret Lee. Her recent non-representational paintings are a clear nod to the history of New York abstraction but her gestures perform an alternative role. The paintings feel hyper-aware and contained, but do not seek a kind of didacticism.
The metaphoric nature of the paintings provide a glimpse into the artist's psyche and the decisions made that allow the works to push past formal logic. Color feels recognizable, perhaps being derived from a surrounding periphery. One feels echoes of popular culture and fashion but also something natural; something personal yet far off. Color finds itself at a crossroads; at once a part of one’s mediated environment but also somewhere physical and nurturing.
Lee’s mark is decisive, yet its pace is brisk and perhaps in flux. There are qualities of containment and release; pushing up against boundaries and finding ways out. The paintings are in no way orthodox in their relationship toward a history formalism. Form, gesture, and line, seek backdoors, openings, and windows; a wrestling for liberation that feels of the present. At home or at large, Lee’s decision-making feels relatable; sifting through one’s personal and collective experience of the moment.
On view will be two distinct bodies of work. Lee’s Curve and Ordinary Positions paintings demonstrate a desire to think-through and find meaning in the formal. We look forward to sharing this work with you at June Basel.
Location:
Riehenstrasse 90B
4058 Basel, Switzerland
Opening: Mon, June 10
VIP Preview: 1pm — 6pm, by invitation
Public Opening: 6pm — 8pm
Public Days:
Tues, June 11 - Wed, June 12: 1 - 8pm
Thurs, June 13: 1 - 9pm
Fri, June 14 - Saturday, June 15: 1 - 7pm
Sun, June 16: 1 - 5pm