Mickey Lee: Big Rock Candy Mountain: Broadway East Hampton pop-up location at 87 Newtown Lane

June 27 - July 20, 2024
Overview
Mickey Lee The Fish (yellow fin tuna, halibut and red snapper), 2024 oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches
Mickey Lee
The Fish (yellow fin tuna, halibut and red snapper), 2024
oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Mickey Lee: Big Rock Candy Mountain
June 22 - July 21, 2024
Broadway Easthampton
87 Newtown Lane
Easthampton, NY

Broadway Easthampton is pleased to present Big Rock Candy Mountain, a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York artist Mickey Lee.

Situated between a come-on and something more disconcerting, Lee’s nudes and animals inhabit fantastical landscapes that beckon a viewer to bacchanalian overindulgence. Referencing art-historical idylls and cautionary tales in equal measure, we are presented with feasts of fresh fish and bountiful flesh suspended in dreamlike equilibrium. Nonetheless, what lies just out of view and subtly suggested, are the wages of gluttony and lust—that the dream state can turn quickly to something peculiar and more sinister.

Similarly, we see pampered pets and docile cattle, rendered in startling colors, lounging in a luxury that obscures their subservience. These subjects float in a swirl of faces in profile, suggesting both Chagallian graces and a judgmental Greek chorus.

Taken together, the Lee’s paintings are a call to pleasure, while their otherworldly compositional logic underscores the urgency and ephemerality of desire.
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