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Gabrielle Wu Lee RETROSPECTIVE on view 10.18.13 – 11.24.13 at
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w w w. m o f a . f s u . e d u This article contains material from the commemorative book, “Gabrielle Wu Lee,” produced by The Museum of Fine Arts. Excerpted texts written by Paul Z. Lee, Sharon Hartman, and Allys Palladino-Craig.
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HE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
celebrates the life and works of Gabrielle Wu Lee in a stunning retrospective spanning the artist’s dynamic painting career. While the reproductions portrayed on the following pages may provide the figurative basis behind her abstracted images clearly, what is missing is the breadth of her surfaces worked and often turned ninety or one hundred and eighty degrees so that liquid paint flows in different directions and materials crystallize into patterns of hue and value.
Opposite: Hula Hula Dancers, 2004, oil on canvas, 48 x 40”, Private Collection. All works by Gabrielle Wu Lee. Photography by Jon Nalon of Tallahassee, Florida