Guided by intuition, I strive to produce work that is a compelling visual experience in my abstract, acrylic paintings. I create a complex surface using many techniques that may include mark marking, collaging, stamping, and stenciling. Much is improvised as the artwork develops. A back-and-forth between spontaneity and intention characterizes my approach. Painting in the moment, I yield to the process to unearth the painting's potential. Then I step back to evaluate the formal concerns of line, color, shape and balance to influence my next move. This visual dance creates many layers of paint over line and texture leaving intriguing traces of what came before.
Over the last 28 years, Lee Muslin has participated in over 300 exhibitions throughout the United States, as well as several other countries, including 24solo shows. Three of her solo exhibitions were in Philadelphia and five were in New York City. Many New York and Philadelphia gallerists and museum curators have selected her art for juried shows. Her work has been published in Ink Pot, a literary journal, Artistry Magazine, Creative Insights and Manhattan Arts International in addition to 27 other publications. Lee’s art has been on the cover of two Philadelphia Stories magazines and a book of poems.Chris Valardi has reviewed her work in The Irregular, as well as Deborah Kostianovsky in the InLiquid Blog.
Ms. Muslin has been privileged to receive 36 awards including Best of Show from the North Penn Arts Alliance, First Prize from Artists' Equity, First Prize in Watermedia at the Meadowood Juried Exhibition and purchase awards at the Independent School of Rock and the Ninth Annual Kennedy Plaza Fine Arts Show. She attended the University of Delaware as a fine art major and subsequently received a degree from Parsons School of Design in New York City. A firm believer in education, Lee continually takes workshops at various art centers as well as nationally recognized abstract artists.
1996
Parsons School Of Design, New York, NY
AAS, Photography
1971
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Fine Art major
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
New York City College, New York, NY
2022
Meadowood, Second Place, Acrylic
2019
North Penn Arts Alliance, Envisioning the Creative Freedom of Jazz Award
2018
Artists Equity at Baker Gallery, West Chester University, First Prize
2016
Purchase Award, Independent School of Rock, Philadelphia, PA
2015
Third Award, Aloft, Beauty Gallery, Newtown Square, PA
2014
Special Award for Abstract Art, Annual Juried Exhibition, Meadowood, Worcester, PA
2010
First Prize Other Media, North Penn Art Alliance, Lansdale, PA
2003
Purchase Award, Ninth Annual Kennedy Plaza Fine Arts Show, Long Beach, NY
Kostianovsky, Deborah, "Vernal Longing", The InLiquid Blog, May 2020
Valardi, Chris, "Brush & Lens: The Female Perspective", The Irregular, March 2020
2020
"Brush & Lens: The Female Perspective" review, The Irregular, page 10, March 2020
2012
Stone Voices, Endnote full page interior photo, page 104, Spring 2012
2011
Scheponik, PC A Storm by Any Other Name, cover, March 2011
2009
Philadelphia Stories, cover, Fall 2009
Murano Condominium, Philadelphia, PA
Independent School of Rock, Philadelphia, PA
Library of Congress Collection, Washington, DC
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Long Beach Medical Center, Long Beach, NY
Lone Wolf Café, Amherst, MA
ArtHouse Lounge, Harrisburg, PA
Art and Soul, Inc., Warwick, RI
2002 – 2006
Jury Panelist for Photography, Computer Arts, & Printmaking, National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA), New York, NY
2002 - 2004
Exhibition Committee Chair, Professional Women Photographers, New York, NY
1999 - 2003
Founder and Director, Center for Digital Art, Inc., New York, NY
1997 – 2002
Founder, Director and Curator, Nexus Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Cerulean Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2020
Academy House, Philadelphia, PA
Cerulean Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018
Siegel JCC, Wilmington, DE
2016
Schang-Hai Gallery, Creamery, PA
2013
Neighborhood House, Philadelphia, PA
2012
Pebble Gallery, Doylestown, PA
2011
Hidden River Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Balance Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2024
InLiquid Toasts 25, Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks, Philadelphia, PA
2021
Here and Now, Exhibit B Gallery, Souderton, PA
Created in Covid, Lansdowne Art Board, Lansdowne, PA,
Herspace, Philly Art Collective, Philadelphia, PA
48th Annual Art Show, Yellow Springs Art Show, Chester Springs, PA
2020
Summer Juried Show 2020, Abington Arts Center, Jenkintown, PA
Juror: Mashiul Chowdhury, PAFA alumni
71st Anniversary Juried Show, Philadelphia Tri-State Artists Equity online exhibition
Juror: Bridgette Mayer, gallerist and art consultant
Brush & Lens: The Female Perspective, 5 person exhibition, Gallery on Fourth, Easton, PA
Vernal Longing, InLiquid Online Exhibition
2019
Cerulean Arts Gallery Collective, Philadelphia, PA
Arise Media Arts Council Gallery, Media, PA
Yellow Springs Art Show, Chester Springs, PA
Artists Equity Members Juried Exhibition, GoggleWorks, Reading, PA
Juror: Neysa Grassi, painter and PAFA faculty
Round and Round, six-person exhibition, Square Pear Gallery, Kennett Square, PA
Works on Paper II, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Mixed Media, Bethlehem House Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
2018
Tri-State Artists Equity Juried Exhibition, John H. Baker Gallery, West Chester University, West Chester, PA
Juror: Kassem Amoudi, painter and instructor at PAFA
Juried Exhibit, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Juror: Luella Tripp, curator, gallerist and art consultant
Chester County Studio Tour Exhibit, The Art Trust Gallery, West Chester, PA
2017
Philadelphia/Tri-State Artists Equity, Duke Gallery, Wallingford, PA
Juror: Jan Baltzell, painter
Juried Painting Exhibition, Media Arts Council Gallery, Media, PA
Juror: Alice Beamesderfer, Deputy Director for Collections and Programs, Phialdelphia Museum of Art
Yellow Springs Art Show, Chester Springs, PA
2016
Absolutely Abstract, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
73rd Annual Awards Painting Show, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
Juror: Joseph Borrelli, Borrelli’s Chestnut Hill Gallery
2015
72nd Annual Awards Painting Show, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
Juror: Sharon Ewing, Director Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Spring Gala Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
Juror: Pam Regan, Owner/Gallerist, Bluestone Fine Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014
71st Annual Awards Painting Show, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
Juror: Richard Rosenfeld, The Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Jewels & Treasures, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
Juror: Eileen Tognini
2013
1st Annual Juried Exhibition, Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Juror: Stuart Shils, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts faculty
Artists Against Hunger, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Juror: Moe Brooker, former Head of Philadelphia’s Commission of the Arts
2012
Community Exhibit, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Out of Our Hands Gallery, Emmaus, PA
2011
Outside/Inside, goggleWorks Center for the Arts Cohen Gallery, Reading, PA
Juror: Bruce Samuelson, Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Mixed Media, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA
2010
Art for the Urban Collector, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Through my Window (traveling exhibition), Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville, NJ and the Perkins Art Center, Collingswood, NJ
2009
Through My Window, Smile Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Tappan Z Gallery, Tarrytown, NY
2008
Absolutely Abstract, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Personal Totems, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, Co-curator: Faith Ringgold
2006
Inside, Chrystie Street Gallery, New York, NY
Minimal to Monumental, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
2005
Luxe, Owen Lawrence Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Tapestries (three-person exhibition), artspace 129, Montclair, NJ
2004
Artists Who Happen To Be Women, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX
2003
46th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Center For The Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY
Juror: Michael Gitlitz, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Inspired by the Land, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Reactions (traveling exhibition), Exit Art, New York, NY
Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Library Of Congress, Washington, DC
2001
Bon Voyage, Knickerbocker Gallery, New York, NY
2000
2000 National Juried Competition, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
Juror: Maria Christina Villasenor, Asst. Curator of Film & Media, Guggenheim Museum
2022
The Other Art Fair, Maspeth, NY
