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- Artist Name:
- Lee Ables
- Location:
- San Diego, California, USA
- Statement:
- It has always been my feeling that a work of art has to be more than a reproduction of something already familiar to the viewer. That is why truly great works of art go beyond the superficial representation of things to a reflection of the ideas and feelings of the artist. This not to decry representatioalism, since most great works of the past are representatational, but usually what makes these works great has little to do with what is represented. The fact that I choose the non-representational mode as a means of expression is because I feel that I can best stir the imagination of the viewer in this manner.
If you're asking, as people often do, "What was your thinking when you started this painting?", you are on the wrong track. My paintings, while inspired by nature, are neither of nature or about nature. I try to utilize the colors, textures and shapes that I see in nature in a new and innovative way to create a world that doesn't exist anywhere except on the canvas and in the viewer's imagination. I approach painting with no preconceivedideas about the finishedproduct, but rather let intuition guide the brush and my response to what is on the canvas. The intellectual part is towards the end when I try to organize the work into a definitive statement.
I want the viewer to see things they have never seen before, to visualize a world that doesn't exist anywhere except in their own imagination. In this way, it makes the viewer something of an artist as well.
- Biography:
- I was born and raised in Southern California. After graduating early from Washington High School, I joined the Navy and trained to become a combat aircrewman. My mostmemorable event in a rather lackluster career in the navy was taking part in a search mission for five navy planes lost in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945.After leaving the service in 1946, I began a 10 year on and off career of school and work, finally graduating from L.A. State College in 1956 with a B.A. degree in Art Education. I then began a teaching career that lasted for some thirty years, first in Los Angeles and then in Hawaii.
I moved to Hawaii in 1959 to get out of the smog in L.A.. While in Hawaii, I attended the University if Hawaii and obtained a M.F.A. in painting in 1963 and then spent the next 25 years of my teaching career at the Kamehameha schools. During this time, I continued my professional career as a painter, exhibiting in all of the major juried shows in Hawaii. I belonged to several professional art organizations there and after moving to the mainland United States in 1993, I continued a professional career as a painter in Arizona, becoming a juried member of the Arizona Artists Gulild. My work is found in many private collections in Hawaii as well as on the mainland United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe.I am also represented in the collections of the University of Hawaii, the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and the City and County of Honolulu. In 2007, I was invited to exhibit my work at the Florence Biennale Internationale Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy.
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