{"id":1844,"date":"2010-08-04T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T00:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/08\/susie_j_lee_is_a_genuis\/"},"modified":"2010-08-04T17:05:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T00:05:51","slug":"susie_j_lee_is_a_genuis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/08\/susie_j_lee_is_a_genuis.html","title":{"rendered":"Susie J. Lee is a genuis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or so it says on the cake. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrimoreproject.com\/lp\/Artists\/Pages\/Susie_J_Lee.html#7\">Lee<\/a> is this year&#8217;s winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/genius?\">Stranger&#8217;s Genius Award<\/a> in visual art, which.comes with a cheap cake and a sizable check: $5,000. Lee is the essence anti-spectacle. Her <i>Frequency Map (2007)<\/i>&nbsp; at Lawrimore Project was a room&nbsp; empty save for the sporadic sound of soft knocking, answered by barely audible raps. When visitors left, the room tried to whistle them back, as if it were a void with needs. The room grew louder as it shuffled through its pickup moves, hoping to score.<br \/>\nIn <i>Fugue State<\/i>, hands play across a cast resin pillow, slipping in and out of each other&#8217;s embrace. A force drives a fuse in <i>Conjugal<\/i>, thumping through the cotton batting of a mattress interior. Lee tracked oil drops swimming through water in<i> Wake Up<\/i> as she played Bach on the piano.<\/p>\n<p><i>Conjugal<\/i>, 2006, video<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"susieleeconjugal.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/susieleeconjugal.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"350\" width=\"450\" \/>Lee&nbsp; has also served as curator, focused on what a devotion to the muck of clay does to contemporary artists. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrimoreproject.com\/lp\/Exhibitions\/Entries\/2010\/1\/7_WET_AND_LEATHERHARD.html\"><i>Wet and Leatherhar<\/i>d<\/a> at Lawrimore Project, review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/01\/doug-jeck-loves-you-no-really.html\">here<\/a>.) Her videos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrimoreproject.com\/lp\/Media_Galleries\/Entries\/2008\/10\/9_Susie_J_Lee____.html\">here<\/a>. Jen Graves on Lee&#8217;s selection <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2010\/08\/04\/4599092-and-it-begins-susie-lee-youre-a-genius\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or so it says on the cake. Lee is this year&#8217;s winner of the Stranger&#8217;s Genius Award in visual art, which.comes with a cheap cake and a sizable check: $5,000. Lee is the essence anti-spectacle. Her Frequency Map (2007)&nbsp; at Lawrimore Project was a room&nbsp; empty save for the sporadic sound of soft knocking, answered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}