Margaret Lee

Margaret Lee navigates the intersections of sculpture, painting, photography, and installation, exploring the tension between the everyday and the surreal. She frequently transforms ordinary objects—fruits, furniture, domestic items—into hyperrealistic plaster-cast sculptures, interrogating themes of desire, identity, and consumer culture. Through these works, Lee encourages viewers to reconsider their relationships with familiar objects, revealing the uncanny or poetic potential within the mundane. In recent years, Lee has increasingly turned to abstract painting, emphasizing introspection, emotion, and vulnerability. Influenced by psychoanalytic theory and creative methodologies such as Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, her paintings embrace uncertainty, allowing intuition and process to guide form, color, and composition. This shift reflects a broader exploration of presence, absence, and the psychological landscapes that shape perception. Across the media, Lee’s work balances meticulous craftsmanship with conceptual inquiry, blending formal rigor with personal and poetic reflection. By combining material experimentation, transformation of everyday objects, and a deep engagement with emotional and psychological states, her practice creates immersive, thought-provoking experiences that invite contemplation and reinterpretation of the familiar. Her projects often oscillate between realism and abstraction, emphasizing the fluid boundary between external appearances and internal states, making her work both intimate and expansive. ...