Artists, and other Animals: New Work of Joe Lee

“I love a good story, actually, I love some bad ones, too.

Stories are the way we human animals explain ourselves to the world and to each other. I create art to talk to the world; to tell a story.

Our winged, furred, shelled, and scaled brethren have since time immemorial been the subjects of our fables, myths, and our symbolic stand-ins. These are some of my animal stories, sometimes using well known works of art as the vehicle to drive the plot. Sometimes letting the mask, the mirror slip just enough to show who and what is really being represented. Sometimes just letting the ambiguity be the story.