LEE KELLY

1932 Born, McCall, Idaho. 1959 BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art

Selected Exhibitions 2019 If Trees Could Walk, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2018 Six Decades, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2017 Winter Garden at Muktinath, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR : Sculpture and Print, Bend Art Center, Bend, OR 2016 Eunice Parsons at 100, group exhibition, 12 x 16 Gallery, Portland, OR 2015 Observatory at Jaipur, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2014 Pavilion, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2012 Atacama, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR PNCA Juried Alumni Exhibition, Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR 2011 Maquettes, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR The Shape of the Problem, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2010 Chrome, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA Retrospective Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Goddess Revisited, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2009 Reflections of Khajuraho. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2008 Doubtful Sound, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2007 Kyoto 8, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Lee Kelly: Civic Sculpture, B-Street Gallery, Portland, OR 2006 Incidents of Travel, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2005 2D From 3D, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR pARTners: Considerations Rather Than Constraints, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA 25 Years of Drawing in The Art Gym, Art Gym , Portland, OR Icarus Revisited: Recent Sculpture, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2004 23+ on 9th, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 2002 Paintings and Sculptures from the Revolution 1958-1964, Savage Gallery, Portland, OR 1998 Memory 99 Outdoor Sculpture, Leland Iron Works and Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Recent Wall Sculptures, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Ships of Renewal and Other New Work, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 1997 New Work, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 1995 Career retrospective, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR. 1993 Sound Garden, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Collaborations in Steel and Sound, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA (With composer Michael Stirling) 1992 Tools of the Butter Trade, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 1988 Collaborations in Steel and Sound, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR (With composer Michael Stirling) 1987 Love Variations, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA Incidents of Travel in Asia and Yucatan, exhibition of stainless steel sculpture, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR 1986 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 1985 Yucatan Series, Hodges/Banks Gallery, Seattle, WA 1984 Outdoor Sculpture, year-long retrospective, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR (Catalog)

Selected Collections and Commissions (1985 to present) 2017 Akbar's Elephant, Fox Tower, Portland, OR 2015 Uskudar, Menashe Properties, Vancouver, WA 2013 Angkor I, Millennium Plaza Park, Lake Oswego, OR (Belluschi Commission), Private Collection, Portland, OR 2012 Celebes, Vestas, Portland, OR Untitled Commission, Gerding Edlen Development, Portland, OR Nepali Towers, Private Commission, Mercer Island, WA 2011 Dunbar, Private Commission, Saint Michael, MD Henry Ford at Delphi, Oregon Department of Transportation, Salem, OR 2007 Howard’s Way, Civic Center, Portland, OR 2006 Tahoe, Incline Village, Nevada 2005 Loowit, Salmon Creek Hospital, Vancouver, WA Fish Ladder, Blue Lake, Central Oregon 2004 Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus, Indoor Fountain, Portland, OR Angkor IV, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 2002 Box and One Lofts, Portland, Oregon. Wall sculpture for exterior of building. Fletcher, Farr, Ayotte, architects Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, Purchase of two outdoor sculptures: Lava Ridge and Four Columns Re-siting and installation of "Akbar's Garden" at the 's School of Architecture, Eugene. Formerly at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, California. 2001 Lupine Fugue, sculpture for the Oregon Garden, Silverton, OR 1999 Healing Place, sculptural memorial for St. Vincent Hospital, Portland, OR, Stainless steel and stone.Stainless steel fountain and re-circulating pond for Michael Powell residence, Portland, OR 1998 Sculpture commission for Robert and Shake Sarkis, Seattle, WA Bend Gate, major sculpture for the City of Bend, Oregon. Corten steel, 32' high. 1996 Sculpture for Don and Emilie Frisbee residence, Portland, OR 1995 Major sculpture for PCC Rock Creek, Portland, OR Sculpture for Sapphoro, Japan. Part of Portland-Sapphoro Sister City Program 1992 Sculptural wall for Joan and John Shipley residence, Portland, OR Obelisk, sculptural obelisk for Tina and Reed Wilson, Portland, Oregon. Stainless steel and acrylic urethane paint, 30' high. With sound by Michael Stirling.Arlene and Harold Schnitzer residence, Portland, OR Stainless steel sculpture with acrylic urethane paint, 9' high. With composer Michael Stirling. 1990 Friendship Columns, two stainless steel columns, 24'h, N.Waterfront Park, Portland, OR withcomposer Michael Stirling. 1989 Aeolian Columns, sculpture for the new Veterans Administration Medical Center, Portland, OR. Stainless steel and porcelain enamel columns fitted with organ pipes. Memorial for Sir James McDonald, Rock Garden, Portland, Oregon. Paul Hart and Jan Jacobsen residence, Portland, Oregon. Garden elements, including sculptural waterway. 1987 Jeff and Diane Boly residence, Portland, Oregon. Private garden and fountain. Corten steel and porcelain enamel. 1986 Arch with Oaks, commissioned sculpture for the Cornell Oaks Corporate Center, Beaverton, Oregon. Stainless steel, 48" high. 1985 Bellgate, commissioned sculpture for the Bellevue Pedestrian Corridor, Bellevue, WA. Stainless steel, porcelain enamel and turning mechanism. With and David Cotter. 1984 Akbar's Garden, commissioned sculpture for the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, California. Stainless steel, 17' high. Reinstalled at the University of Oregon, School of Architecture, Eugene. 1985 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, Corten steel, 14' high. Omark Industries, Portland, Oregon, Corten steel, 14' high.

Selected Collections and Public Purchases City of McMinnville, McMinnville, Oregon Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon City of Sapporo, Sapporo, Japan Virginia Museum, Richmond, Virginia New Orleans Art Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Pacific Center, Seattle, Washington One Union Square, Seattle, Washington Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Coos Bay Art Center, Coos Bay, Oregon Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Reed College, Portland, Oregon Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon Omark Industries, Portland, Oregon Pacific Northwest Bell, Portland, Oregon TriMet, City of Portland, Portland, Oregon Washington Park, International Rose Test Garden, Portland, Oregon