Lee Musgrave
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
of computers it is increasing daily … so it is imperative that we all increase our abilities to relate to and understand abstract visual images .
Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing your thoughts , Lee . Finally , would you like to tell us readers something about your future projects ? How do you see your work evolving ?
This is perhaps the most difficult question for me to answer for I have many projects in progress and dozens of others I ’ d like to start . Let me begin by telling you about some of the ones I am actively working on : 1 . I ’ ve been trying to incorporate some reverse gestural painting-on-glass with some of my current light pad photography . It ’ s turning out to be harder to do well than it sounds . 2 . I ’ ve been working on an 8 ft . x 5 ft . painting from my Real Time Memories Series for over a year and finishing it is challenging . The painting is about our relationship to water and soil erosion . 3 . While I ’ ve had many solo exhibits and my work is usually in two or three group exhibits each year , I would like to have another solo featuring at least three of my most recent abstract photography series . Presenting solo exhibits generates a great deal of feed-back and that ’ s a good thing for artists . However , convincing a gallery to schedule a solo exhibit for you takes considerable socializing and schmoozing . 4 . And of course , I have dozens of photo series that need to be completed and archived .
In addition to my studio activities , I ’ ve completed writing a murder mystery novel set in the art community of present day Los Angeles . It is now being professionally edited and when that ’ s done I have to decide on whether to submit it to a traditional publisher or to turn it into an e-book and publish it myself . In the mean time I ’ ve gone ahead and begun writing the second novel in the series .
To me , having choices in what I do and want to do makes for a happy life .