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Dallas Morning News
Weekend Guide Spotlight
June 23rd, 2006
Mike Daniel
Jody Lee web site Dallas Morning News Weekend Guide Spotlight June 23rd, 2006 Mike Daniel Fresh out of Southern Methodist University's graduate art school in the late 1990's, Jody Lee made her artistic name here with three types of work: huge fabric-and-board sculptures, tiny pipe-cleaner armatures and expressive ink drawings on paper. Though they varied wildly in size, form and forcefulness, they all explored the same thing: how the human body defines space both in and around itself. That's still Ms. Lee's primary aim, though she's only shown drawings locally since she moved to New York. Some of her latest creations, made chiefly with gouache washes of varying densities, go on display at Marty Walker Gallery tonight. Unlike her sculptures, her paper works require considerable concentration on the part of viewers. Despite the works' often playful and literal nature, they're bolstered by serious secondary themes, such as emotion, esteem and sexuality.