Lee Walton


(c) 2004 Chris Baker 		Stacked, 2005
(ongoing performance)
35-pound weightlifting plates
5’ 10” x 14” x 14”

This sculpture takes the form of a series of approximately fifty 35-pound lifting weights stacked onto a vertical metal pole along the waterfront facing Manhattan. Over several months, Lee will periodically pick up a weight at Modells’ Sporting Goods on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and carry it approximately 4.5 miles across the Queensboro Bridge to Socrates Sculpture Park. Over the course of the exhibition, the stack of weights will slowly grow to a height of almost six feet.

Born 1974
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Education
2000 M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
1998 B. F. A., San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Selected solo exhibitions and projects include: Walton vs. Shaq - Free Throw Competition, Lemon Sky Projects, Miami, FL (2004); Making Changes - Red vs Blue, 667 Shotwell, San Francisco, CA (2004); Life/Theater Project, Psy-Geo Conflux, New York, NY (2004); City Systems - The Project, University of Fontenay-aux-Roses, France (2004); Last Place, The 2003 Walton Derby, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (2003); 50 Objects, The Project Space, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA (2002); The San Francisco Files Part II - City Systems, SPUR (The S.F. Planning and Urban Research Association), San Francisco, CA (2002); Ambulatory Gambit, S.F. Bureau of Urban Secrets and S.F. Files, San Francisco, CA (2002); and Red Ball, Silent Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2001).

Selected group exhibitions and projects include: Sport and Society in Contemporary Art, The Berth and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY (2005); Social Constructions, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (2005); Old Habits Die Hard, traveling exhibition: Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey; Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK; Out Of Place, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN (2004); One Block Radius, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (2004); 1:100; DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY (2004); Scores, White Columns, New York, NY (2004); Sadie Hawkins, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2004); California Dreamin’, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2004); Portland International Film Festival, Portland, OR (2004); Improbably Monuments, SF Cameraworks, San Francisco, CA (2004); Video Projections, 8th Havana Biennial, Pabellon, Cuba (2003); The Best Coast Show: A Survey of Young West Coast Artists, Portland, OR (2003); The Clothing Project, Kunsthall Fredericanium, Kassel, Germany (2003); Exhibition Games, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA (2003); Uncertain Line, Spangaga, San Francisco, CA (2003); Solid Gold, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (2003); Close Calls, Headland Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2003); PHOOD, Shadow Cabinets in a Bright Country, apexart, New York, NY (2002); The Earth Exhibition, Potrero Gardens, San Francisco, CA (2002); Frisco, Spangaga, San Francisco, CA (2002); A Fine Line, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA (2001); and Last Place, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA (2001)