This abstract photographic work features a striking composition of overlapping and fragmented geometric shapes in shades of black, white, and grey. The monochrome palette and the interplay of light and shadow create a sense of depth and visual tension, while the asymmetrical arrangement of the shapes adds a dynamic and unsettling quality to the piece. The artist's use of collage-like techniques and the incorporation of found imagery suggest a complex interplay between abstraction and representation, inviting the viewer to explore the relationship between form, space, and perception. The historical context or the artist's intention behind this work likely reflects the experimentation and innovation that characterized the contemporary art scene during the period in which it was created. ...
Dionne Lee navigates the complex terrain where landscape, survival, and memory collide, weaving together photography, collage, video, and sculpture to reveal hidden histories and embodied knowledge. Her work challenges dominant representations of the American wilderness by centering bodily skill, ancestral resilience, and the material traces embedded in land. Using analog processes such as darkroom manipulation, tearing, layering, and re-exposure, Lee deconstructs the photograph as both image and object. Her interventions disrupt the illusion of neutrality in landscape imagery, foregrounding themes of power, labor, and historical erasure. Survival techniques—like reading the stars, building shelter, or navigating terrain—inform both her process and conceptual framework. These gestures connect physical skill with cultural endurance, transforming acts of making into reflections on autonomy, displacement, and adaptation. Lee’s work resists fixed narratives, holding space for contradiction: land as both refuge and site of violence; the body as both vulnerable and resourceful. Through this tension, she opens up possibilities for reimagining belonging and reframing how histories are carried, resisted, and redefined. ...
Bibeau Krueger is a contemporary art gallery in New York with a commitment to the practices of artists concerned with a social and conceptual response to real time.
