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el lee


    colloquialisms
    heterology 1-6
    arms and legs
    changes
    fragments 1-4 (...the river in the sand)
    philoctetes’ bow
    thick, fleshy, heavy
    portrait of al
    2019 & prior...
monotypes
 charcoal

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colloquialisms
oil and body casts on wood panel
dimensions variable, 2025


colloquialisms
detail


colloquialisms
detail


colloquialisms attempts to counterpoint racialized skin color meaning with the language of figure painting: color value, tone, proportion, hue; Byron Kim’s ‘Synechdoche’ read against Josef Albers’ ‘Interaction of Color’.