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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lee’s Garden and Morgan’s Landscapes<br>
Inspire Two Art Exhibits in Lawton<br>
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LAWTON – Some gardens generate much more than flowers or produce. Some
are to be <i>experienced</i>, creating lifelong impressions in their visitors.<br>
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Oklahoma’s foremost art historian, Cecil Lee, brings his love of gardens to
life in a new exhibition at the Leslie Powell Gallery in Lawton beginning Sept.
13. Lee directs the USAO Gallery in Chickasha after decades of teaching art
history at the University of Oklahoma.<br>
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A separate show featuring the work of landscape painter Patti Morgan of
Chickasha opens on the same day at the Powell Gallery. Both shows will open
with a reception, with refreshments, from 7-9 p.m. Admission is free.<br>
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Both artists are tied to the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, where
Lee joined the faculty in 1991 and Morgan graduated in 1999.<br>
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Lee’s “An Oklahoma Garden” features photography from his one-acre garden
inspired by the years he and his family spent near Rome while he taught in the
Academia della Arte. His idea of what a garden was, which began as a child in
northern Ohio, became more like a work of art when he saw it cascaded down an
Italian hillside. </span><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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</span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#7F007F'>Images from the fertile mind and garden of artist Cecil Lee
comprise<br>
a new gallery exhibit at the Leslie Powell Gallery in Lawton. A <br>
formal opening is scheduled at 7 p.m. on Sept. 13. At the same <br>
time, a new exhibit of works by Chickasha’s Patti Morgan opens <br>
with a series of her landscapes in oil. Lee is director of the USAO <br>
Art Gallery in Chickasha.<br>
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</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Sadly,
in our culture, design has been mainly seen as a component of advertising art,”
Lee said. “Then it occurred to me that by combining these several directions I
might have a direction to follow. Monet had laid out gardens with the sole
intent of painting them. My garden was already in place. Unlike the painter who
visits someone else’s garden, or even a pleasing natural site, it was my
design, and it was an art statement in itself. It was already art.”<br>
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His Norman replica is his own work of art, and it is featured through the
medium of real and digitally enhanced photography.<br>
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Lee first tasted garden life as a child. <br>
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“We always had a large vegetable garden,” he recalled. “We were a large family,
dependent on canning and storing food for the long winters of northern Ohio. …
During the Korean War, I was assigned to the Sixth Army Headquarters at the
Presidio of San Francisco. This was my first experience of actually living in a
garden. That is, a garden designed to be experienced rather than to provide
food or cut flowers. My army years were followed by formal studies in art history
and art theory. My specialty was Eighteenth Century British taste, and I became
acquainted the great English landscape artists of the late baroque.<br>
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“In the early sixties I spent a summer conducting a class in baroque art in the
Academia della Arte, Rome. My family and I stayed at a convent on one of the
several hills of Rome. Here we relaxed evenings in the cloistered garden with
our two pre-school daughters.”<br>
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Like the lavish gardens he visited, Lee and his wife, artist Dolly Lee, planned
their own elaborate landscape garden in Norman.<br>
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Lee’s photography exhibit explores both the natural – from his garden – and the
imagination, from his computer. Following art trends in the last century that
see art more as <i>an idea</i> than <i>a skill, </i>Lee’s exhibition also
features digitally enhanced abstract works from his inventive mind.<br>
<br>
“Everything in this exhibition comes originally from either a one acre spot of
Oklahoma or from the mysterious realm of that now not uncommon domestic machine
we call the personal computer.”<br>
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Morgan’s show, “Repurpose,” was developed by traveling life’s road. <br>
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“Working in my studio affords the solitude to reflect upon my observations of
nature,” Morgan said. “From my photographs and sketches I plan compositions
that sometimes combine locations or distort the horizon. The interactions of
color and texture make the paintings come alive and capture a perception of
place.”<br>
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Morgan’s artistic expression, like Lee’s, involves <i>experiencing </i>the
subject.<br>
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“The images of my oil paintings are derived from flying over, driving through
and being in the landscape,” Morgan said. “I am inspired by the land’s pattern,
texture, and color and find the experience a respite from contemporary life. In
contrast, the imagery of my mixed media collages is derived from an inward
journey. It is a result of combining portions of earlier drawings, prints, and
paintings. These repurposed works are cut or torn apart, edited and adhered to
various support materials. The collage components are arranged in regard to proportion,
color, shape and texture; often in a grid formation. The process of imposing
order upon these altered artworks results in a reconciled vision.”<br>
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Both exhibits will remain open through the third week of October. Besides this
special evening opening, the Leslie Powell Gallery, located at 620 SW “D”
Avenue in Lawton, is open from noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.<br>
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FEATURE</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>August 26, 2008<br>
UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND ARTS OF OKLAHOMA - CHICKASHA<br>
<b>CONTACTS: <br>
</b>USAO - RANDY TALLEY: Public Relations, 405-574-1337, <i><a
href="rtalley@usao.edu">rtalley@usao.edu</a><br>
</i>POWELL GALLERY: Nancy Anderson, 580-357-9526<br>
THE ARTISTS: Cecil Lee: 405-819-9919 or Patti Morgan: 574-2902<br>
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