Hand-painted plaster, dimensions variable
With signed and numbered certificate, 2012
Edition of 90 + 15 APs (each unique)

$500

Margaret Lee's Katahdin is a cast and hand-painted replica of a Katahdin potato grown by Shandaken Projects director Nicholas West. She is interested in the potato as a classless object: a banal, staple foodstuff that ignores social barriers. The new potatoes exist somewhere between an edition, a readymade, and a unique artwork: each is hand painted, however they are all cast from the same mold. Each comes with a signed and numbered certificate from the artist.

Lee's potato sculptures became well known in 2010, when she individually cast Idaho potatoes that were repurposed as raw material for other artists, namely Michele Abeles and Darren Bader, in a show for White Columns. Lee collaborates with both on a regular basis, and also shows Abeles' work in the commercial gallery she runs, called 47 Canal. This flattening of roles and commitment to ongoing partnership is tantamount in Lee's practice: community and collaboration are vital elements of her artwork and her program as a dealer.

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About the Artist
Margaret Lee has organized and exhibited work at numerous venues domestically and internationally including, The Windows, Barneys, NY; Concentrations HK: Margaret Lee, curated by Gabriel Ritter, Duddell’s x DMA, Hong Kong; Made in L.A, 2014 Hammer Museum Biennial, Los Angeles; 2013 Biennale de Lyon; de, da do...da, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Caza, curated by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Bronx Museum, New York; NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami; New Pictures of Common Objects, curated by Christopher Lew, MoMA PS1, New York, and Looking Back, White Columns, New York, amongst others. In 2009, Lee founded the artist-run space 179 Canal and is currently a partner in the gallery 47 Canal. Public collections with works by the artist include: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Dikeou Collection, Denver and the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo.