HAPPENINGS St. Victor
"A Unique Journey" January 1 - 3 EC Gallery
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very artist hopes for his or her work to be seen by the world; from the humblest
to the egotist, they all wish their work to be seen. There is a belief that their true inner vision will be seen and understood. St. Victor, better known as illustrator Vic Lee, has that very reach every artist seeks. In the beginning of the New Year, ECG Forum Shops will be exhibiting the work of said artist, an artist who spends a majority of his time drawing cartoons.
In the back pages where newspapers are inked all over in both classic and new comic strips, Lee’s own strip, Pardon My Planet, captures readers attention from here to Timbuktu. Every week for the past
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10 years, he has used jolting juxtaposition, bemused reactions, and clanking robots warning Mrs. Robinson of grave danger, winning over his audience. The number of papers in which Lee is published reaches about 130, and that is just an estimate. Lee re-launched the strip back in 2003 and since then his mind has been all creation, and the goal for him is evolution through art.
“I think my evolution as an artist is really my evolution as an experiencer—being able to fall down, get up, brush myself off, and paint the bruises on canvas,” he said. “There is a purpose to suffering and that is to find the secret to overcome it. Not to overcome
the event, but to overcome the suffering as a result of the event. I still suffer, but am getting better at it.”
Upon reading some of the zany scenes from the insightful “Pardon my Planet,” gallery goers might be hard-pressed to believe Lee is a real painter, one whose body of work is immersed in history and myth. The women in his paintings are more than faces that glow in the right light and carry the Renaissance- inspired colors. They are complex characters, possessing their own sense of purpose inside each one of his pieces.
St. Victor isn't just a painter, he is an
illustrator. “As an illustrator I have a story to tell,” he said. “I need to create metaphors
OFF THE EASEL MAGAZINE – WINTER 2016
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