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George Lee
Benicia, CA
George Lee (American, born 1983 in Boston, MA) lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Inspired by healing through ecological and cultural wonder, George works with communities and his team to sculpt immersive large-scale, site-integrated installations. Geometry, interconnection and site cultures are often central to the work. Integrating the sculpture beneficially into site dynamics of circulation, aesthetics and culture in an accessible, interactive manner is an important priority. Actively engaging people and ecologies, with a special focus on highlighting hidden stories, is another important aspect to the sculpture.
Recent and current projects draw inspiration from seaweeds, cleats and net sheds of the Salish Sea, and similarities in metamorphosis of conifer seed ovary pods and Indigenous to contemporary human development within the City of Seattle. These projects investigate the similarities of human and non-human structural forms, organic dynamic form possibilities in materials otherwise considered hard, linear and unforgiving, and the merging of human and non-human realities in ways that uncover the universality of all things on Earth.
George’s work is the recipient of the 2020 Kresge Foundation Equitable Creative Placemaking Grant (MI), 2021 Charles Payton Award for Heritage Advocacy (WA), 2019 ASLA Washington Professional Award (WA) and 2015 Crosscut Best Civic Technology Project (WA). He was commissioned by the 2016 Fulbright Visiting Scholars Program World Affairs Conference to speak on his work, and his work featured frontpage in 2018 Landscape Architecture Magazine (WA) and 2017 Real Change News (WA).
Inspired by healing through ecological and cultural wonder, George works with communities and his team to sculpt immersive large-scale, site-integrated installations. Geometry, interconnection and site cultures are often central to the work. Integrating the sculpture beneficially into site dynamics of circulation, aesthetics and culture in an accessible, interactive manner is an important priority. Actively engaging people and ecologies, with a special focus on highlighting hidden stories, is another important aspect to the sculpture.
Recent and current projects draw inspiration from seaweeds, cleats and net sheds of the Salish Sea, and similarities in metamorphosis of conifer seed ovary pods and Indigenous to contemporary human development within the City of Seattle. These projects investigate the similarities of human and non-human structural forms, organic dynamic form possibilities in materials otherwise considered hard, linear and unforgiving, and the merging of human and non-human realities in ways that uncover the universality of all things on Earth.
George’s work is the recipient of the 2020 Kresge Foundation Equitable Creative Placemaking Grant (MI), 2021 Charles Payton Award for Heritage Advocacy (WA), 2019 ASLA Washington Professional Award (WA) and 2015 Crosscut Best Civic Technology Project (WA). He was commissioned by the 2016 Fulbright Visiting Scholars Program World Affairs Conference to speak on his work, and his work featured frontpage in 2018 Landscape Architecture Magazine (WA) and 2017 Real Change News (WA).
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