heavy shine @
Gardiner museum for
Contact photography festival
Toronto, ON
July 21-September 12, 2021
HEAVY SHINE emerges from an ongoing collaboration between Toronto-based ceramic artist Dianne Lee and New Orleans-based visual artist Robyn LeRoy-Evans. Lee and LeRoy-Evans investigate their relationship to materials and their bodies, using their hands to throw pots and to drape and thread fabrics. The work is presented as a collaborative, multimedia installation of collage, drawing, ceramic vessels, portraiture, still lifes, and arranged tableaus that speak to the process-based relationships between the artists as well as their shared interest in the domestic object and contemporary conversations around women working together.
About CONTACT
CONTACT is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to celebrating and fostering the art and profession of photography with an annual Festival in May and year-round programming in the CONTACT Gallery. CONTACT embraces an inclusive and accessible approach to the medium, and cultivates collaborations with and among artists, curators, institutions, and organizations.
I’d like to acknowledge the assistance of the Ontario Arts Council in making this exhibition possible.
Photography by Toni Hafkenscheid
Social Recession
Weston Art Gallery
NCECA Annual, CINCINNATI, OH
March 13-April 24, 2021
Vessel Moves I & II speaks to the tensions of collaborative work, the vulnerability of working together, the tension between together and apart and manifesting materials with mindfulness and compassion. This two juried photographs are on exhibit at Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, OH for the 2021 NCECA Annual, Social Recession.
Vessel Moves I & II by Dianne Lee and Robyn LeRoy-Evans, 2019
The Jungle
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA
June 29 - July 20, 2019
The JUNGLE a collaboration with the New Orleans based artist-collective, The Front. Artists:
Kevin Baer, David Bordett, Vanessa Centeno, Patrick Coll, Lee Deigaard, Tom Friel, Nurhan Gokturk, Robyn LeRoy-Evans + Dianne Lee, Cristina Molina, Kelly Mueller, Ruth Owens, Alex Podesta, Claire Rau, Cynthia Scott, Jamie Solock, Jonathan Traviesa, Madeleine Wieand, and Ryn Wilson
The Front:
The Front, an artist-run collective and 501c3 nonprofit gallery, fosters the development of contemporary art in the city of New Orleans through innovative exhibitions, lectures, screenings, performances, and other arts programming, all of which are free and open to the public. Founded by artists in 2008 amidst the post-Katrina resurgence of New Orleans and committed to a spirit of grassroots DIY determinism, The Front cultivates new and experimental work, in particular from emerging artists, but also from nationally and internationally known artists.
Robyn and I displayed two pieces of photography in The JUNGLE from our duel exhibition HEAVY SHINE, works included “Tending to the Monumental I & II”
Image credit: Rakeem Cunningham
press
HEAVY SHINE
The Front, New Orleans, LA
March 9 - April 7, 2019
HEAVY SHINE emerges from an ongoing collaboration between Toronto-based ceramic artist Dianne Lee and New Orleans-based visual artist Robyn LeRoy-Evans. Friends for almost 2 decades, Dianne and Robyn have delighted in combining their practices, continuing to challenge and inspire each other through their individual materials, styles, approaches.
Image credit: Jonathan Traviesa
Small Transgressions
Craft Ontario, Toronto, ON
September - October 31, 2015
Group exhibition. Fourteen artists present new works that disturb the boundaries of their individual practices. Through critical reflection and collaborative exchange, unexpected themes and forms have emerged over a ten month mentorship program led by Linda Sormin, and programmed by FUSION: The Ontario CLay and Glass Association. See the videos I create for the installation here along with some process videos here.
GUTS & VIGOR
L’Entrepôt, New Orleans, LA
May 2016
As our experiences get digested and spilled out we reach for our materials to tell stories. GUTS & VIGOR is an exhibition of all new multi-media artworks by Toronto based artist Dianne Lee and localartist Robyn LeRoy-Evans. This exhibition communicates as we squish and fold our materials, exploring the visceral self as subject through process. The work reclines and hangs while referencing the human body through familiar objects and gestures....a chance to play, experiment, and gather thoughts....a method of communication, a way to sing out one’s ideas....what is inside, and what is outside....a collection of conversations between materials....an opportunity to reinvigorate ones creative self after a period of hibernation.
Not Too Tight
Medalta Residency, Medicine Hat, AB
August 2016
Not Too Tight is rooted in memories, experiences that have not been forgotten, and are still alive. I connect to this thought through the process clay, as a transformative material, takes. Once clay is fired it is still. This notion allows me to play with the movement of the material and the stillness it then holds, conceptually meeting my desire to combine and juxtapose materials, objects and symbols that reverberate the live and still of experience and memory.
