Born in Brooklyn, New York  artist Eric Lee’s talent and technique are revolutionary when it comes to execution as his canvas are large sheets of back painted glass.  Creating jewel-toned abstracts full of energy and grace.  


Eric Lee’s art invites the viewer to contemplate life’s profound depths. Through color and abstract patterning and swirls of paint, we see a reflection of what it means to discover equilibrium and purpose within ourselves. In pieces such as “Tempest” we sense the struggle and danger of the storm while in “Wash” there’s the calm waves lapping the shore and rendering us clean from the aftermath. We find balance.  


Lee spent roughly twenty years as a technical consultant to some of the world’s leading architectural design firms, working on projects including the Guggenheim Soho, the Armand Hammer Museum, and the Andy Warhol Museum. This background in design helped develop his eye for balance and fluidity; between aesthetic quality and unprecedented method, Lee’s pieces are exceptionally innovative and elevated. A central theme to Eric’s work is a focus on transition and blending—a theme that is reflected in his philosophy for life. Be it color and material or culture and creed, he believes that the ability and willingness to connect is one of the inherent beauties of our world.  


Of his work, Eric Lee says, “My approach to painting reflects my philosophy about aesthetics in general… that the key to what ‘works’ and, by the same token doesn’t work for me, lies in the transitions. The effective juxtaposition of what may seem to be conflicting or incompatible colors, may lie in the way they blend. I suppose that, in a broad sense, this is my world view as well. That the key to things working between people of various groups—differing genders, religions, national origins, sexual preferences… and colors—lies in our ability to see potential value inherent in each… allowing them to be who they are and our willingness to see the beauty in the subtlety that connects us.”