Solo Exhibitions > Slow Burn, 2022

Portable Pond; Work of memory
Exhibition view at The Phillips Museum of Art
2021
The work of memory
Color copies mounted of foam board, wood structure
84 x 75 x 15 inches
2025
L to R: Backbone; Habitat; The Walking Mountain (Ferment/Foment)
Steamers, stool, saw blade, woven yarn, charred wood branch, bamboo stakes, plaster, blown glass, sealed containers of fermenting peppers, red chili pepper powder, sulfur powder, rolling pallet
2019
Inhabit
Garlic sleeves, copper in three different states
2021
Electronic Garden / Slow Burn
Defunct electronic parts, electrical/audio wire, petrified wood, cassiterite (tin), bauxite (aluminum), sphalerite (zinc), chalcopyrite (copper), wood
17 x 32 inches
2021
Century (detail)
Found bricks, glaze, wood, chalcopyrite
2021
Dewdrop (Dogen)
Blown glass, copper, welded steel, plaster, cement, wood
2020
Rising
Fired ceramic gift bows in colors of changing leaves, shirt
2021

Sandra Eula Lee is a multidisciplinary artist who transforms familiar objects and materials to disrupt assumptions related to permanence. She questions fixed states and orientation, sometimes reframing her materials and at other times altering their chemistry through the application of heat, fire, or fermentation.

Lee often uses industrial materials in her sculptures, including bricks, concrete, electrical wire and other materials of construction. She recombines them with hand-made forms in her sculptures and installations, exploring changes made to the built environment. For this presentation, Lee creates a new version of her
Portable Pond, inspired by the ponds located within East Asian gardens. She conceives the garden as a space of contemplation, reflecting its surroundings.