Lee
Puffer
About
Lee Puffer
Lee Puffer is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist.
She received a BFA in the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusets College and an MFA from San Diego State University.
Puffer has exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, The American Museum of Ceramic Art, and The Women’s Museum of California among others. She is currently adjunct faculty at San Diego State University and Grossmont College.
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Artist's Statement
In my work, I explore stories that have a certain universality and pan-cultural archetypes that resurface throughout human history. I am a storyteller, casting mythological Gods, heroes, villains, and monsters as players. It’s amazing how these ancient stories prevail; we can find meaning and new interpretations for the archetypes. They help us understand humanity, society, and culture.
Using these stories, I translate and perform my personal experiences to document, honor, and express the struggles we all face. A level of abstraction allows for individual interpretation of these brutally honest autobiographical narratives.
As much as the work is about storytelling through the use of figurative imagery, it is also about using the body in the physical act of making. Our bodies move materials to manifest a feeling or emotion to perform an experience. Many experiences that are real and profound do not hold a physical form. All humans feel love and longing, joy and grief, shame and pride, frustration and satisfaction, for instance. When we experience any of these intense emotions, we know they are very real, yet they do not have a tangible existence in form. As artists, we make these experiences visible.