Like images by Impressionist or Abstract Expressionist painters, Myles Lee sees as painters did after photography obviated the need for journalistic representation. He is neither a photojournalist, a social commentator, nor a photoshopper. Lee attempts to recreate, in a painterly fashion, what a painter might have done in plein air armed with a camera instead of a brush. He intellectualizes otherwise natural scenes to produce images that provoke the viewer to assume an interpretive role. Lee subordinates the reality of otherwise ordinary subjects in the natural world to powerful abstractions, dominated by form, composition, balance, color, texture, and light.
Myles Lee, former cardiac surgeon, current President of the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra, novelist, and librettist, is a member of the Carmel Foundation Photographers and the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California (CPA). He has been a finalist in juried exhibits at CPA in 2014, 2017, and 2018 and has been exhibited in Los Angeles, San Diego, Carmel, Monterey (Monterey Museum of Art), and Baltimore.
Lee’s work resides in private collections in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Salinas, and Carmel, California; Durham, North Carolina, and East Hampton, New York. Seven of Lee's images have recently been added to the permanent art collection of the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey, California. View less