Lee Ann Norman
Lee Ann Norman is a writer and editor based in New York City.
Barkley L. Hendricks: In the Paint
By Lee Ann NormanThough a small selection of works, In the Paint aptly demonstrates the foundation for Hendricks’s explorations of aesthetic sensibility and racial identity that would predominate his decades-long career.
Ellie Ga’s Square Octagon Circle
By Lee Ann NormanFrom classifying sidewalk stains to the story of a beachcomber finding a bottled message at sea, Ga focuses our attention on the ambiguity and indeterminacy of exploration, and the human desire to rationalize and order the world.
Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals
By Lee Ann NormanIn his final days, post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin undertook one last significant endeavor: to reflect on his life through personal journals, to be published only after his death.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Photostats
By Lee Ann NormanMade as the AIDS crisis in the United States was at its peak, the photostats—a series of fixed works with white serif text on black fields that are framed behind glass—reflect the contradictions inherent within human beings; a timeless social commentary on the difficult and ongoing work that lies ahead to create a more just world.
Aldrin Valdez’s ESL or You Weren’t Here
By Lee Ann NormanIn their debut collection of poems, Pinoy writer and visual artist Aldrin Valdez conjures a constellation of identity through the remnants. Memories, photographs, letters, transcriptions, artworks, and pop culture references cleave to reconcile the joy and trauma inherent in a duplicitous, multi-hyphenate world.
