Bio
Lee Maskarinec was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona and began painting as a neighborhood street artist. She first studied landscape painting in 2016 at Soka University of America, where she received her BA in Environmental Studies. She currently works in acrylic and oil painting, printmaking, and recently in stained glass and sculpture. She is an MFA graduate of Pacific Northwest College of Art in Visual Studies, and is currently based in Portland, Oregon.
"My studio practice comes from an amalgamation of memory, dreams, and the myths of Slavic folklore, investigating conflated spaces that combine symbols of modernity with magical realism. I love to consider ways in which folklore allows us to live in familiar and comfortable worlds, while also making outcasts of us. I think painting does this job so well, an archaic art form that still captivates and opens hidden doors into who we are and how we understand our world."
Exhibition History
Group Shows:
2023
Memento Mori, The Chateau Gallery Online Exhibition, Louisville, Ky: “Nox and the Priestess”
Facets, PNCA 511 Gallery, Portland, OR: “Witch Hut”
Chimaera, Community Creative Space at Lloyd Center Mall, Portland, OR: “D.O.E.” and “T/the red little ones roll around and Death bundles it all up”
PNCA Visual Studies MFA Thesis Exhibition, After/Time Gallery, Portland, OR": “Unreliable Narrator, Death in the Garden”
2022
Mixed Metaphors, PNCA 157 Gallery, Portland, OR: “Perun and his Tabled Lightning”
Time In-Between: Temporary Matter(s), PNCA 511 Gallery, Portland, OR: “Troupes I & II”