A few days ago I came upon the site Artsicle, a NYC-based startup designed to encourage art collecting. You can “rent” a piece of art (in NYC) for $50 and then, if it works in your home, buy it! It’s like Rent the Runway for artwork, which is a great idea! While I was trolling the site I came upon the drawings of Deanna Lee.
Of course I loved this because it’s a sheep and yarn! I also like that they look pretty cyclical and repetitive as well. It’s interesting to see people take new approaches to representing animals – I could easily recognize these but they were still a bit abstracted.
These are so cute. They remind me of so may artists I love already from papercutters to other pen / ink drawers. This one is entitled, “Boxer” – appropriate given the movement she’s able to create with the swirls.
Having gotten back into yoga a bit lately I can easily see this as its title, “Squatter” – my class on Sunday was a ton of squatting, I’m still in pain.
Ha – guess the name of this piece…”Thighs” – amazing. The curls remind me of animation and cartoons in a lot of ways. Deanna calls these “controlled doodling.” In her artist statement she goes on to say that, “the masses function as entities or characters that serve different roles in each work. I think of them as visual metaphors for social relationships and emotional states.”
I really recommend everyone check out both Deanna’s site and Artsicle overall – they have tons of cool young, new artists to check out and, if you’re in NYC, try out in your home. I hear Boston’s to come soon for their service, can’t wait!
Tags: 2D, animal-inspired, artists, drawing, repetitive
Deanna Lee
Hello!
I just found this post from a random Google image search. Thanks for featuring my work!
Best,
Deanna