About/Contact

 

 

Hi, I'm Tatum Lee (she/her). I'm an artist based in Salt Lake City, UT but grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. I'm in love with the desert. My favorite desert may be Joshua Tree, but I also love any desert that has sandstone boulders for me to climb. My favorite time of day are the few moments before we lose light, when everything glows pinks and purples. 

My great grandparents built a tiny cabin on Henry's Fork of the Snake River back in 1965. Growing up I was lucky enough to spend every summer at the cabin- reading books on the bank of the river while I watched my grandpa fish, picking sage and wildflowers, painting stinging nettle, creating memories with my cousins, exploring Yellowstone National Park, and if I was lucky getting a sterling silver ring from Jackson or West Yellowstone.  The dark ominous yet hopeful beauty that is the wild wild west will always be an inspiration for my paintings and jewelry. I have a lot of pride in being from sin city and Vegas continues to be an influence in my work as well, especially my jewelry.

My work focuses on our relationship to place, how it affects our identities as well as the relationships with those around us. I'm also interested in the way we choose to remember place, how we selectively store memories, and how we choose to reflect and interact with those memories of place. 

I received my BFA in Studio Art from BYU in 2015. I studied oil painting, but love to paint with watercolors and acrylics as well. After graduation, I started taking metalsmithing classes as a way to continue learning, continue being challenged, and to be with other creators. I love being able to use both mediums, sterling silver as well as paint, to express my curiosity about ideas of reflection, memories, and time.

 

Contact: 

tatelee.art@gmail.com

Instagram @tatepaints