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Mr Lee Harvey Roswell ( U.S. )
Lee Harvey Roswell, male, paints obscure and comic scenes in oil paint, focusing on realistic, detailed rendering and whimsical invention. These imaginative scenes are the inspiration of his observations and colorful past, with a underlying theme running throughout of rising above one's troubles. In his own words, "if it’s to be thee human experience, I’m doing it with Adversity's most beloved target... the one that bounces back, the Clown. That's the trick of it see, bouncing back." Lee was born in Freefall, New York, is self-taught in all his mediums, and now lives in San Francisco with his wife and cat. He does a number of gallery shows locally and around the world every year, has been featured in several top art publications over the past decade, and is collected world wide. |
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Artist's Statment - The Nothing Manifesto
You all know the Shakespearian line, "nothing will come of nothing," right? A seemingly simple line really. "Nothing will come of nothing." Sure! This is King Lear's response to his loving daughter, Cordelia's refusal to voice her love for her father for the sake of topping her sisters' ridiculously competitive praises.
But in this first scene of the play, Lear is greatly mistaken in his math. A great deal comes about from that first "nothing." A wake of human drama, disinheritance, deception and seduction, greed and revenge, madness, and death lies within those pages as proof. So, "nothing will come of nothing" has an alchemical esotery to it.
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To me, this makes a fine analogy for the tradition of painting. In painting you have a canvas, or panel, or whatever surface you are working with the side of a beached whale, whatever it might be. From the point of visual intrigue or physiology, nothing. Then the painter takes his pigments and their respective vehicles, his tools, his brushes, and through a process of eye to hand prowess he covers that surface. But again, physiologically, spiritually speaking, the painter has only covered nothing with nothing. And this, my friends, is where I introduce my attitude toward aesthetics and craftsmanship. I've watched painters haphazardly spill their paints, splatter them around, make great messes, and still end up with nothing more than nothing. That said, I've also seen painters so studied and accomplished that for all their acquired skills they show nothing after nothing after nothing, and each time it still it amounts to nothing.
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An overeducated cookie-cutter shaped like a zero. However, a skilled hand attached to the right nervous system, something with the character and the soul necessary for the task, can elevate the very same materials, the very same nothing, to the loftiest heights of human revelation. He can pull our great philosophical obsessions out into the stark light of observationÉ and all out of nothing!
So in painting and my attempts to achieve this ideology, I am not interested in abstract art, or cutesy sentimental art, or childish art, or political art, or graffiti art, or post-Picasso laziness, or what breakfast cereals you ate and what television programs you watched when you were a kid. None of that matters to me. Without the least hint of apology I tell you to me it's nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. No, I'm interested in exactly this: creating narratives involving the fantastic images there to be culled forth from those fertile depths of the creative, neurotic-like mind. Concrete objects in mad motion, reflecting all the seductive, terrifying elements of existence. The inarguable forerunner of the senses is the eye. We are primarily an optically reliant species. So, as pictorial illusionists transforming nothing into artifacts of spiritual sustenance, I'm holding the potential painter up, not just as an admirable tradesman, but much, much more. He resides as a high-priest over that all-devouring human reality, a conducting channel through which nothing triumphantly becomes something.
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| Artist Artworks |
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| Chin Up! |
| LR-0001 |
| Size : 51cm(W) x 51cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $3,200.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Can Can |
| LR-0003 |
| Size : 25cm(W) x 25cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $1,600.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Strange Pool |
| LR-0005 |
| Size : 22cm(W) x 25cm(H) |
| SOLD |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Anger Feeds on Anger |
| LR-0006 |
| Size : 51cm(W) x 51cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $5,350.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Lil' Business with P |
| LR-0007 |
| Size : 41cm(W) x 51cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $4,450.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Take it From the Top |
| LR-0008 |
| Size : 51cm(W) x 51cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $5,700.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Bringing in the Tide |
| LR-0009 |
| Size : 25cm(W) x 25cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $1,600.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Touch Ups for Resale |
| LR-0010 |
| Size : 25cm(W) x 25cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $2,200.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Checkered, Passed |
| LR-0011 |
| Size : 25cm(W) x 25cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $2,350.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| The Hole and Some of |
| LR-0012 |
| Size : 25cm(W) x 25cm(H) |
| SOLD |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| The Ol' Handkerchief |
| LR-0013 |
| Size : 25cm(W) x 25cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $2,350.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Untitled Sketch 02.1 |
| LR-0014 |
| Size : 20cm(W) x 25cm(H) |
| SOLD |
| Medium : Others |
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| 2nd Draft Study for |
| LR-0015 |
| Size : 20cm(W) x 25cm(H) |
| SOLD |
| Medium : Others |
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| A Picture of Life (o |
| LR-0016 |
| Size : 45cm(W) x 55cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $3,750.00 |
| Medium : Oil on wood |
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| From the Moment You |
| LR-0017 |
| Size : 27cm(W) x 35cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $275.00 |
| Medium : Paper Print |
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| On Thin Clouds with |
| LR-0018 |
| Size : 68cm(W) x 83cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $6,050.00 |
| Medium : Oil on wood |
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| The Enrapt Scholar |
| LR-0019 |
| Size : 41cm(W) x 51cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $5,250.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| The Pratfall of Sunn |
| LR-0020 |
| Size : 31cm(W) x 31cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $1,800.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Encore Call |
| LR-0021 |
| Size : 51cm(W) x 61cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $5,800.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Long Pants |
| LR-0022 |
| Size : 23cm(W) x 31cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $2,000.00 |
| Medium : Oil on wood |
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| Motion is a Fable |
| LR-0023 |
| Size : 46cm(W) x 56cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $6,600.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Bip is Dead! Long Li |
| LR-0024 |
| Size : 31cm(W) x 41cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $2,500.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| The Breaks I |
| LR-0025 |
| Size : 51cm(W) x 51cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $4,650.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| The Breaks II |
| LR-0026 |
| Size : 51cm(W) x 51cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $4,650.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Three Graces |
| LR-0027 |
| Size : 76cm(W) x 76cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $9,200.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Lil' Critique |
| LR-0028 |
| Size : 46cm(W) x 61cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $3,600.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Venus im Peltz |
| LR-0029 |
| Size : 46cm(W) x 56cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $4,100.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| I SAW WOMAN! |
| LR-0030 |
| Size : 41cm(W) x 51cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $3,000.00 |
| Medium : Oil on wood |
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| The Anti-Allegory |
| LR-0031 |
| Size : 41cm(W) x 41cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $1,600.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Panic in a Diminishi |
| LR-0032 |
| Size : 41cm(W) x 41cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $1,600.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Rape of Psyche |
| LR-0033 |
| Size : 56cm(W) x 71cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $5,500.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Plans for a Public B |
| LR-0034 |
| Size : 41cm(W) x 41cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $1,600.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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| Three Graces (Carbon |
| LR-0035 |
| Size : 31cm(W) x 41cm(H) |
| Price(USD) : $1,750.00 |
| Medium : Oil on canvas |
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Exhibition
2009
Equinox Eclective: Fine Art * Fine Prints, 1516 Folsom, San Francisco, CA
Soup N' Crackers (solo show), Zahra's Studio Gallery, Beacon, NY
Portrayals (group show), Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Inaugural Exhibit (group show), Art Raw Gallery, NYC
Spirit of Romance (group show), Eaton Terrace Gallery, London
2008
Stills Are Still Moving, Gallery Three, San Francisco, CA
The Red Dot Fair, NYC
Mugshots, Acident Gallery Eureka, CA
New Brow, Monterey, CA
2007
A Minute and an Hour (group show), Fool's Foundation, Sacramento, CA
Chillin's 9th Anniversary Party, the Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA
Erotic Show, Accident Gallery, Eureka, CA
The Favorites Show, OuterEdge Studios, Monterey, CA
Sea of Dreams New Year's Party (group show), Concourse Center, San Francisco, CA
Project Artist Connect (group show), Chez Poulet, San Francisco, CA
Tripych Gallery (three man show), San Francisco, CA
2006
111 at 111 (group show), 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA
Best of SF (group show spearheaded by SF Weekly) , Ruby Skye, San Francisco, CA
Leftovers (group show), Tangent Gallery, Witchita, KS
Slapstick (solo show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Live 12 Hour Painting (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Chillin Productions (group show), various events, San Francisco, CA
With David Hilman (two-man show), Crockett Contemporary Art Gallery, Crockett, CA
Cheesecake (group show), Commerce Gallery, Witchita, KS
The Dirty Show (group show), Detroit, MI
Group Show, Forge Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Portrait Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Frank Chu Palooza (group show), San Francisco, CA
Group Show, Lineage Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
4th Annual Erotic Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San, CA
2005
The Red Paintings (13 Interpretations of Goya), the Shooting Gallery, SF, CA
Art Print (group show), Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Chillin Productions (group show), various events, San Francisco, CA
Wet Paint (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
3rd Annual Erotic Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Day in the Life of a Painting (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cine Delirio (four man show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Chillin Productions (group show), various events, San Francisco, CA
Lee Harvey Roswell vs. Marco Almera (two man show), Shooting Gallery, SF, CA
Tokyo Monster Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2nd Annual Erotic Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Solo exhibit, Idle Hand Tattoo Studio, San Francisco, CA
The Erotic Gunn Show (group show), Pawnbroker Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Solo exhibit, The Element Lounge, San Francisco, CA
2003
Balazo Group Show, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Propaganda Show (group show), Studio Z, San Francisco, CA
The Erotic Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Loin Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Doctrine (group show), Lola Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Gun Show (group show), Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Publishing
2009 Feb - Art Calendar magazine
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