Author Archives: Deanna

PULSE CHROMATIC at Peep Space

October 28–December 5, 2023

92 Central Avenue, Tarrytown, NY 10591

Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays 12-4 pm or by appointment

from the press release:

PeepSpace presents Pulse Chromatic, an exhibition of paintings by the artists of the collaborative group Streaming, founded in 2020, and based in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Streaming artists, Mike Childs, Deanna Lee, and Melissa Staiger, are inspired by and invested in the broad and diverse history, legacy, connotations, and possibilities of abstraction. The group views abstraction as a generative and generous perspective and a process of making that allows and reflects continuously developing ideas and manifestations as visual images.

The presented paintings, made of acrylic emulsion and pigment on canvas, linen, and wood, share elements like hard-edge shapes, linear gestures, and saturated colors. The paintings are inspired by ever-mutable qualities of natural phenomena and built structures of our physical and psychological environments. Through their works of abstraction, each artist in Pulse Chromatic expresses a fascination for unexplored terrains. They treasure discovery, surprise, and experiences of growth and transformation as they travel, as makers of abstract artworks, along a ceaselessly fruitful journey.

PeepSpace is an artist-run project space in Tarrytown, NY, founded in 2020 for emerging and established artists to share their practice and vision with a wider audience.

Intermission Museum of Art: “matter/of/fact”

From March 7 through April 24, 2022, Intermission Museum of Art (IMA) presented the online exhibition matter/of/fact, featuring the collaborative work of Deanna Lee and Kirsten Nash. The entire exhibition is archived and can be viewed at: https://intermissionmuseum.org/volume-ii/matter-of-fact/.

matter-of-fact explores the intersection of the collaborators’ individual studio practices through the concept of collage. This method of working offered Lee and Nash the opportunity to play with and navigate the potential of digital video as a way to bring together expressions of their respective and overlapping interests and ideas. The resulting experimental encounters and gestures manifest a conversation, and the works embody a practice of interactions and contributions that bring together bits and pieces: elements, views, influences, inspirations, and interpretations, of the surrounding landscape and of direct and mediated experiences of the material and immaterial world.

Drawing in benefit auction, May 23, 2019

My drawing Eagle Street 2 (ink on vellum, 10.5 x 9 inches) will be part of the benefit for the Institute for Public Architecture, on Thursday, May 23, 2019, 6:30–10PM.
Address: Jack Studios, 601 West 26th St., 12th floor, in Manhattan. 
Come to a great space with amazing views, for a great cause! 
Tickets are $50 per person; $25 for young professionals and students. Free-flowing libations and light fare included.
Tickets can be purchased here.

Greenpoint Open Studios, June 8–9, 2019

Foram Facet J, 2018, gouache and acrylic on wood, 10×10 inches. Photo: Paul Takeuchi.

My studio is full of recent works and some works in process and will be open to visitors Saturday June 8 and Sunday June 9, 12–6 pm, during Greenpoint Open Studios.
Address: 253 Greenpoint Avenue, #4A, Brooklyn, NY 11222
If the GOS weekend is not convenient, please feel free to contact me to visit at another time.

Among Friends 2019

I was honored to once again participate in the “Among Friends” project, with this 9×7-inch work on paper, Egg Moon, made with watercolor, gouache, and tinto (an ink I made by soaking some wood I collected in Mexico, 3 years ago). It is available for $250, with 10% of all sales donated to the Lower East Side Girls Club.

An exhibition inspired by stem cells—EXTENDED through January 22


During the summer of 2018 and continuing into 2019, my drawing Hover is part of the “Infinite Potentials” SciArt Center exhibition at ArtCell (Cambridge, U.K.) and New York Hall of Science (New York City), in collaboration with the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. The Cambridge edition of the show was on view June 14–July 14, 2018.

The exhibition at the New York Hall of Science is on view from September 8, 2018, through January 22, 2019.
Mid-show reception: Saturday, October 20, 2018, 2–4 pm
Address: 47-01 111th Street, Corona, New York 11368
Visitor info: https://nysci.org/visit/