Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Lee Musgrave
An interview by and
, curator
, curator
Artist Lee Musgrave ' s work is a channel of communication between abstraction and reality : while his photography is considered abstract it is actually completely realistic . Encapsulating a careful attention to composition and balance , his works suggest spontaneity and walks the viewers through an unconventional aesthetic journey . In his Light Ring Caress series , that we ' ll be discussing in the following pages , he has captured the ephemeral qualiy of light , materializing it into a coherent unity and accomplishing the difficult task of providing the viewers of a multilayered experience in the liminal area in which experience and imagination converge to a unexpected still consistent point of convergence . We are very pleased to introduce our readers to his multifaceted and stimulating artistic production .
Hello Lee and welcome to LandEscape : before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background ? You have a solid formal training and you hold a Master of Arts , that you received from the California State University , Los Angeles : you also nurtured your education studying with Hans Burkhardt and Fritz Faiss , who studied at the Bauhaus with Paul Klee and
Wassily Kandinsky . How do these experiences influenced your evolution as an artist ? And in particular , how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general ?
Fritz and Hans were more than my favorite art professors , they were my friends . We were allies in our mutual search for self-expression ; in our joint celebrations when discovering and sharing new forms of artistic creation ; and in respecting our short-comings and imperfections . Observing how they both pushed themselves forward in the ever changing atmosphere of the art world , how