March 15 - April 5, 2025
From Spellerberg Projects:
” is an artist from México currently living in Fairfield, Iowa. Elee received an MFA from Maharishi International University (M.I.U.) in Fairfield in 2024 and received a BFA in Painting from M.I.U. in 2013.
In 2001 through 2003, after immigrating to the U.S., Elee received a yearly scholarship from the ArtReach Program at the Indianapolis Art Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In addition to his studio work Elee has collaborated with artists on dance and stage performances Including, Passion Dance Studio, Judy Bales: Words Collide 2012, Fairfield Art of Dance, FEIST Club Burlesque, Bubble Boys Burlesque.
“I move through my days making. I make clothes, food, furniture, jewelry, and I grow flowers to prepare for the changing of the seasons and for personally significant dates and holidays. Cycles of time are intimately woven through my labor.
Growing up in a large-small-town in rural México, this was how most things happened, they had to be made. In everything from day-to-day basic needs to the yearly and once in a lifetime events there was a certain degree of labor: preparing, nurturing, maintaining, repairing, improving, and the act of performing the rituals. Now, making has become a weird luxury of time and resources, and not a practical living approach at all. […]
I like to think about the human impulse to transform our living spaces even though it may very well detract from functionality. Subverting the ‘normal’ roles of objects and materials speaks to my playful nature and allows me to express my own identity. […] Having immigrated to the USA in my early teens, and at current living in the American Midwest, thoughts of home, belonging and identity are ever present in my life.””
Reception: April 5, 2025 | 6–9 pm
103 S Main St
Lockhart, 78644 Texas
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