Rhys Lee
Rhys Lee: Good Boy and Kevin Bourgeois: Wall of Sound
The Brooklyn RailJonathan Goodman
November 19, 2018
In these two shows gallery visitors have the opportunity to view two very different, but very gifted artists. Rhys Lee is an Australian artist in his early forties; this show examples a series of paintings based on a 1970s New York City subway cartoon, made by graffiti artist Mitch 77, of an orange Pluto (the cartoon dog) wearing white gloves and a blue bowtie. Kevin Bourgeois is a New York-based, musically oriented artist whose work here consists of record jackets assembled with pieces taken from different covers.
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A Good Boy and a Wall of Sound at Olsen Gruin Gallery
Quiet LunchKurt McVey
November 14, 2018
There isn’t much time left to catch one of the best two-person shows on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, or more accurately, two unique, but not so disparate exhibitions; Kevin Bourgeois’ Wall of Sound and Rhys Lee’s Good Boy, both seamlessly coexisting inside Olsen Gruin Gallery and coming down Sunday, November 18th.
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'Rhys Lee: Good Boy' at Olsen Gruin, New York
BLOUIN ARTINFOOctober 24, 2018
Melbourne-based painter Rhys Lee comes from a background of street art. His latest, vibrant oil paintings featuring abstracted graffiti-inspired figures in sumptuous "gelato colors" grace the walls of Olsen Gruin in the current solo exhibition, "Good Boy," on view through November 18.
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John McDonald
22/10/11
The act of putting paint on canvas creates fascinating tensions between the cerebral, the sensual and the suggestive.
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Right Now Art - Double Take
Belle MagazineEdited by Leta Keens
February 2007
Two terrific painting exhibitions are coming up at Sydney's Tim Olsen Gallery, there's Rhys Lee, named in Australian Art Collector's 50 Most Collectable Artists. His are lavish and exhilarating works, with a hint of underlying menace.
Paul Davies' intense, idiosyncratic and popular paintings in homage to modern architecture, not to mention pools, can be seen at the Paddington Street Gallery.
Paul Davies, Modern Copy Exterior, 2006 (left)
Rhys Lee, Gaggedfix#8, 2006 (above)
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