Lee M. Walton
Lee Walton
Born 1974, Walnut Creek, California; lives in Greensboro, North Carolina
Golf Glove Systems, 2019-2020; fabric Sharpie on leather; 8 x 4 inches/20.32 x 10.16 cm, each glove
Lee Walton’s multi-media practice that includes, installations, drawings, video, performance, and more, is centered on his goal to shift experience, now nearly completely located in the digital realm, back to the actual realm. He questions the dynamic between digital and human, setting up systems and charting actions that reveal experience, as in sporting matches.
The artist explains that these system-based drawings presented here record the events and outcomes of a round of golf. After each completed hole, he notes the outcome. These gloves represent his perilous journey to one day shoot par, a goal of his that he advanced while artist-in-residence at a golf course, being tutored by a pro.
On the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, having been honored multiple times for his teaching, Walton earned his own graduate degree at California College of the Arts. His work has been presented at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Texas; Ackland Museum, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; and White Columns, New York among other institutions across the country. Collections that hold his work include the Martin Z. Margulies Warehouse, Public Collection, Miami, Florida; Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia; and Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland.