Lee Tal

Lee Tal lives in NYC and maintains multiple studios within MANA Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ. 

Artist Statement: The goal of my work is to create solutions for artistic and spiritual equations. I've always been curious about the gap between sculptures and paintings. This dynamic is a key component in my work where both mediums could coexist in a harmonic symbiosis. I want to integrate sculptural concepts into the painted image that becomes an intimate record of our time. I want to combine the spiritual aspect of conceptual art and the mundane pop-culture objects in pop art together.  My claim is those two concepts cannot be separate but have to interlock with one another and so achieve a perfect union. The reductive well-defined quality of Minimalism is a big part of my work. The best way to describe my aesthetic is "conceptual-pop" with a Minimal underpinning. The final product is my attempt to merge the two equations. My work is also influenced by American consumerism. Our choice of clothing, houses, cars etc. They define our cultural group and political affiliation. I consider those objects as a mirror image of the consumer. Therefore my work is a portrait in which the consumer is a concealed presence. 

Selected exhibitions include the Mayerson Center for the Arts at JCC Manhattan, VillageOne Gallery NYC, PS122 Gallery NYC, the SAMA Museum in Altoona, PA, Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, PA, NDMOA Museum North Dakota, CICA Art Museum South Korea, The Whitney Biennial at The Whitney Museum NY, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel.