Many of the photographs in the exhibit by Lee (printed by Jenny Bendure) are displayed on wall scrolls, hung either vertically or horizontally, with imagery repeated and colors changed arbitrarily for emphasis. "Red grass” provides a kind of decorative border, like a non-neutral mat board, around photos of orange and red daylilies bracketing a pair of bright yellow daylilies in one horizontally hung composition.
Two white trees on each side parenthetically enclose our view of a broad swath of white blossoms in the center of a second horizontal composition called "Grand Iris.” Yard sculpture becomes an important part of the visual equation in horizontally hung photographs of a "Seahorse Fountain” and "Begonias in the Snow” in heavy planters.
Wallpaper- or carpet-like leaf and floral motifs surround Lee's vertical format picture of a garden "Pavilion With Pink Iris,” while a dark rectangle with petals showing in it frames a cascade of "Honeysuckle.” Becoming almost kaleidoscopic are Lee's horizontally hung, repetitive, multiple images of "Cactus,” "Aloe,” and a "Yucca and Umbrella Plant.”
Taking the process a few steps further, nearly to the point of abstraction, are three pictures by Lee of "Lady Fern,” printed in red, gold and green. Offering a nice counterpoint to all this artifice, on the other hand, are Lee's more or less "straight,” though digital photographs of such architectural details as the garden's "Shinto Gate” and steps leading to a gazebo.
Perhaps the best of all is Lee's picture of a white, bare-branched "Sycamore With Blue Sky” — a pristine image on which it would be hard for even the best computer print lab to improve.
Also on view at Leslie Powell, and complementing Lee's show nicely, is "RePurpose,” an exhibit of mixed-media collages by Chickasha artist Patricia Morgan.
— John Brandenburg
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