Catherine Lee is an American artist known for both her sculptures and paintings featuring irregular grids and tile-like patterns. Lee frequently uses black and monochrome colors in her works because she believes it adds a hostile note to her work. “I have a really strong belief in the power of abstraction,” she has said. “My work refers to things in the world tangentially, but it’s not at all representational.” Born in 1950 in Pampa, TX, she went on to receive her BA is studio arts from San Jose State University in California. Influenced by the Minimalist works of Agnes Martin and Robert Ryman, Lee began exploring the grid after relocating to New York in the mid-1970s. The artist cites her childhood landscape of...