DAVID LEE

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In the universe of David Lee, a showgirl contemplates
a feather falling from her headdress and in that pose suggests a sense of human wonder at the world; two children wearing hats ride a pig; and a roly-poly family poses as if for a camera during a night out at the theatre. With generously enlarged figures rendered in acrylic on canvas in the rich primary colors of a child's palette, the warm witty paintings of David Lee have been compared to the works of Botero, Bombois, and Beryl Cook. But the spin he puts on his subject is uniquely his own.

The style may be classified as Art Naif, but the philosophy behind the paintings is deeply humanistic, with utterly human and poignant results. Lee's exquisitely rendered characters seem to be people we've known, seen, and recognize in ourselves, caught in moments of spontaneous and intimate expression, "in the act," to borrow a phrase from the old Candid Camera series by Allen Funt, "of being themselves." Whether his subjects are a couple caught up in an impromptu dance across a red-checkered floor or a woman clutching a wilted daisy, Lee's paintings move, delight, and instruct. They make us laugh without disturbing the essential human dignity of his subjects and are therefore unforgettable.

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A retired New York interior designer for the wealthy and famous, David Lee has traveled widely throughout Europe, Asia, Mexico and Central America. His paintings are in private collections throughout the United States and are widely shown in galleries, predominantly in South Florida, where he currently resides.

Brilliant colors, marvelous wit, and the capacity for compression that allows the smallest of human expressions to stand for the largest are only some of the qualities that make the paintings of David Lee collectibles for the present and the future.

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DAVID LEE STUDIO
99 Royal Palm Drive
�Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301��
(954) 462-5059

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