Helen Lee (artist)

Helen Lee is an artist, glassblower, designer, and educator. She is currently an associate professor and Head of Glass at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work deals themes of language as signifier of meaning and physical form. She describes her practice as an "examination of boundary, duality, and transformation—dwelling on the moments in which breath becomes sound, sound becomes spoken, the spoken word turns written, and the written word is shaped into dimensional form by her own breath." [1] She rendering are often innovative in their process, such as her Alpha-Zanfirico work, based in graphic and digital design. These twisty canes, designed using MIT's VirtualGlass program, are contained in orbs or glass droplets which when cross-sectioned reveal lowercase letters in black.[2]

Education and career

Lee graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science in Art and Design with a concentrations in Architectural Design and Writing. In 2006 she earned a Master of Arts with a concentration in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design.[3] Lee has worked as a designer and glass artist for over ten years. She has taught and lead workshops at the Rhode Island School of Design, the California College of Art, Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio, and the MIT Glass Lab. From 2009-2011 she was an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts.

Select Honors
  • The Irwin Borowsky Prize in Glass Art (2014)
  • Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Award (2014)
  • Glass: A Juried Art Show 2012 Purchase Prize (2012)
  • RISD Graduate Award of Excellence in Fine Arts (2006)
  • E.P. Anderson Scholarship Award (2006)
  • RISD Graduate Student Fellowship (2004-2006)
  • Pilchuck-MIT Partner Scholarship (2001)
  • Peter J. Eloranta Fellow (2000)
  • MIT Arts Scholar (1998-2000)
  • The List Foundation Fellowship for Students of Color, MIT, (1999)
  • MIT Council for the Arts Grant Recipient (1999)

Select Exhibitions
  • Material Mythologies, Minnesota Museum of American Art (2016)
  • Becloud solo exhibition, Urban Glass, (2015)
  • Shattered: Defying Expectation in Glass, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary (2015)
  • Taos Art Glass Invitational Grand Bohemian Gallery (2014)
  • Reversible Reactions, Fuller Craft Museum, (2013)
  • Glass: A Juried Art Show 2012 (2012)
  • Back Room: Selections by Randy Colosky Gallery Hijinks, (2012)
  • Bright Futures, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, (2012)
  • Over My Dead Body Root Division, (2011)
  • Breakable: Glass by Design, Heller Gallery + American Design Club, (2010)
  • How Is This Glass? Of Post-Glass and Glass Guerilla Artists (2009)
  • Vitreous Typography (Solo Exhibition) Public Glass Gallery, San Francisco, (2008)
  • RISD Northern California Alumni Biennial Oakland Art Gallery, (2008)
  • 100 Years of Artists Teaching Artists Tecoah Bruce Gallery, (2007)
  • Glass ’06 Wheeler Gallery, "2006"
  • RISD Glass Triennial Woods-Gerry Gallery, (2006)
  • Annual Graduate Student Exhibition RISD Museum, (2006)
  • Anechoic (Solo Exhibition) The Providence Art Club, (2006)
  • RISD Glass MFA Thesis Exhibition (2005)

References
  1. "A Word is A Thing in Motion". Urban Glass.
  2. "Resident artist explores pangrams at MIT Glass Lab". MIT News.
  3. "Helen Lee". Corning Museum of Glass.
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