Elena Lee is a captivating artist. Her 2000 oil rendition featured here, is called the "Model". The explicit style and bold colors used here, is what makes this painting an absolute masterpiece. The painting is not large in size and in fact is approximately 32 x 36 inches. In the "Model" Lee diverts away from her often muted color palette to something more inviting, alive and fulfilling. The woman appears to be lying on her back, possibly sun bathing somewhere off the Galapagos Island. The shimmers of the brightly colored, abstract styling lends itself well against the proportions of the model's body. The shades of cobalt, periwinkle and blue infuse an atmosphere of a lackadaisical, late afternoon. I simply love this piece. It is quite apparent that Lee approach her stance to the portrait from a vertical distance to extend the model's body forward. By positioning this beautiful woman in this manner, we the audience are allow to make the apparent appreciation that is due. Unlike a lot of expressionist artist painting a nude, Lee is not afraid to frame the slightest detail of the woman's body. The painting as it is; is a wonderful representive to all things beautiful and a great portrait worth celebrating all that is good and lives.

Born in 1971, Elena Lee graduated from the Republic Art College in 1993. She is a thirty eight year old native of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Tashkent is one of Asia's oldest cities. It dates back over 2000 years.  To view pictures of this city, one can not help but to see, the city's rich dowery in architecture and creative atmosphere.  This vitiality gives weight to Lee's paintings.  Lending her portraits the cosmic structure of strength and unfaultering energy found within the Fortress City. Her bold brush strokes and use of striking color palettes revivals even the great masters of this study. The world has been without such a great artist since the late Nineteen hundreds. Her artistic impressionate pieces have be exhibited in Korea, Germany and Tashkent. When Elena Lee turned thirty she gave a small description of herself to a Russian Art Gallery selling her paintings.

"I love painting which is my life. If I am not bored, hungry or thirsty, if I don't want to travel, shop, make love or whatever, I paint. I paint out of malice, happiness, jealousy, passion, when I see utter poverty or tremendous luxury. I paint when I am offended or feel guilty. I roam, I search for balance within and outside of myself and throw my pain as paint onto the canvas. And I love all this, even though I am endlessly languishing, ashamed of my imperfection."-Elena Lee

She paints out of malice, happiness, jealousy, passion... Who does she remind you of?

I often find myself entranced by Lee's simplistic minutiae. Her stark contrasting intensity serves as a vassal of motion to suffuse this simplicity. In the year 2000, Elena Lee painted a perfect example of this contrasting technique in her titled piece known as"Irises". With admirable use of crimson in the background, an on-looker can genuinely see the delicacy of the Irises petals. Lee's technicality allows her to narrate the soft alluring lustre of the King White Iris.

In 2004, our world was graced with her painting called, "House With Mezonine". Here again Lee's powerful resolution and self assurance in color resonates. The orgy embracing the stalks of the Sunflowers aligned with fusions of seascape sage and hearty fractions of royal purple- speaks volumes to her creative nature. Here Lee enhances divergences in the landscape by accentuating the characteristics of each piece. Take the cottage, in the horizon as a prototype to which I'm speaking. Laid in exchanges of cocoa brown and charcoal black the cottage is easily exaggerated against the daring, brightly faced, blue sky. The sunflowers structured so their faces lean forward brings out the relatively of fields from were they are grow. The realization, is brought forth among us, that she painted this piece based off fact and not memory. These viable pieces truly make this era and surmounting time of the 21st Century unique and commendable.