Skip to content

Lee Puffer

sculpture, installation, mixed media, ceramics

Home
About
Contact

jars1

January 17, 2015January 19, 2015 | Lee

Like this:

Like Loading...

Post navigation

< A Snake Eating its Own Tail

Instagram

We go through life looking for connection, not knowing how to ask for it, not knowing how to give. Artists are no different. We try to connect. We try to connect with people through our art. We try to connect with ourselves, the non-verbal, pre-conscious selves. We make a place where people can connect with eachother. When people look at the work, they may feel less alone, more understood. We are always making connections between the things that we see and experience. We order things, create structure. We try to make it all make sense, for ourselves and for the viewer. So much can be said with an image or an object. “I am here. I want to tell you something. Here is the proof.” There is a part of it we understand. There is a part of it that we don’t understand. What keeps us making art is the part that we don’t understand. We want to figure it out. That’s the thing about abstraction. The viewer may not understand it. That’s ok. We don’t necessarily understand it either. We are trying to order the chaos, and that is not always possible. Some of us like chaos. It may be truer to say we want to chaos the order. #arteveryday #feelgood #befree #writingaboutart #dancingaboutarchetecture #icanhelpyou #beyou #makemeaning #makeitmeaningful #meaningmatters #makeart #artistlife #artonpaper #artcurator #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #creativehappylife #creativelifehappylife #creativitycoach #acrylicpainting #figurativeabstraction #artlife #markmaking #makeyourmark #worksonpaper #artconsultant #studiopractice #contemporarydrawing #leepuffer #abstractpainter

Sensitivity is a strength, not a weakness. We are not artists because we are sensitive people. We are sensitive people because we are artists. This is our job, our currency, and we practice this sensitivity in order to hone it. Sensitivity is a strength, not a weakness. It's not about “working through our feelings”. Art is not therapy. That is where people get it wrong. It might be a subtle difference, but it’s a huge difference. It is hard work to dive into deep and painful places in order to uncover some universal truth about the human experience. We are not indulging ourselves in art in order to heal ourselves. We are risking ourselves through art in order to heal the world. It sounds grandiose, but it’s not. It's a job. All jobs fill a need in the world. Art is a job, and it might look like fun, but like all jobs, there are challenges. One challenge is to make things for which there are no words. To make objects about feelings. To accurately depict fleeting moments. To create monuments to ideas and events. To document this human experience. For that we need to try to remain open, and to practice sensitivity. #arteveryday #feelgood #befree #writingaboutart #dancingaboutarchetecture #icanhelpyou #beyou #makemeaning #makeitmeaningful #meaningmatters #makeart #artistlife #sculpture #artcurator #ceramicsculpture #contemporaryart #creativehappylife #creativelifehappylife #creativitycoach #porcelain #figurativeabstraction #artlife #markmaking #makeyourmark #smallworks #artconsultant #studiopractice #contemporaryceramics #leepuffer #abstractsculpture

It helps to know what we want long-term. The current crisis has got us all worried about the present moment and near future. We have to step back and look at the big picture goals we set for ourselves. We might be temporarily off-track/off schedule. That’s ok. If we can just keep working, even a little, we will make progress. Those of us who are now working entirely from home will have a tendency to over-work, and that’s not great either. Balance might be impossible right now, but taking the long view might help put thing in perspective. Hang in there! We’re doing fine💛 #arteveryday #feelgood #befree #writingaboutart #dancingaboutarchetecture #icanhelpyou #beyou #makemeaning #makeitmeaningful #meaningmatters #makeart #artistlife #artonpaper #artcurator #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #creativehappylife #creativelifehappylife #creativitycoach #acrylicpainting #figurativeabstraction #artlife #markmaking #makeyourmark #worksonpaper #artconsultant #studiopractice #contemporarydrawing #leepuffer #abstractpainter

Upcoming Exhibits

Teaching

2018-2019

Southwestern College Ceramics 1. Monday/Wednesday 8:15am-11:30am http://www.swccd.edu

Grossmont College Ceramics 1. Tuesday/Thursday 9:30am -12:30 Ceramics 1. Tuesday/Thursday 1pm-4pm http://www.grossmont.edu

San Diego City College Figure Sculpture I, II, III Friday 9am-4pm

About Lee Puffer

Born in Long Beach, CA, Lee Puffer grew up in Coastal Massachusetts and Maine, Mexico, Venezuela, and the shores of Lake Erie in Western New York. Puffer began her career after graduating with Honors from the Massachusetts College of Art with a BFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media in 1992, working with Tony Oursler among others.
In 2004 Puffer enrolled in the Graduate program at San Diego State University, earning an MFA in 2007 with an emphasis of Ceramics. Her nomadic background manifests itself in sculpture made with a distinct sense of place. Her background as a multimedia artist lends her sculpture and sculptural installations immediacy and a contemporary sensibility.
Puffer creates life-sized figurative and kinetic sculpture and installation which offer cultural critique through personal and controversial imagery often appropriating and re-contextualizing images and ideas from popular culture.
She has exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, The American Museum of Ceramic Art, and The Women’s Museum of California among others. She is currently on faculty at Palomar College in San Marcos, California.

Follow Lee Puffer on WordPress.com

Follow Blog via Email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Instagram

A WordPress.com Website.

%d bloggers like this:

Share this:

Like this: