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Lee Gainer     Bio   Statement                Messenger
I create works that examine how memories are constructed.

Snapshots of vacation spots, spring break, amusement parks, parades, beauty pageants, the circus, and other fantastical guilty pleasures are translated into detailed line drawings and then overlaid to create semi-abstract compositions.  These new images display a somewhat mysterious yet subtlety familiar space that holds a collision of diluted symbolism and traces of nostalgia.  The source photographs, selected from my sizable archive, are the products from the attempts to record an experience, creating a catalyst for recall.  However, the recollection in our mind is unique.  My artistic process is representative of the phases I believe are used to develop these memories: the perception manufactured from expectation, the details recorded from experience, and the incompletely distinct recollection.  The integrated result that becomes our memory is influenced and over written by different bits of information created from each of these steps.  My works leverage this internal process using visual insinuation to simultaneously present the individually meaningful moment and the universally shared familiar experience.

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