Lee Walton

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location = California
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nationality = American
field = drawing, sculpture, video, and performance
training = MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts. BFA, San Jose State University
movement = Social Practice
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awards = Rhizome Commission, Project Commission Southern Exposure, Commission Art in General, Commission Socrates Sculpture Park

Lee Walton is an American artist, and self described "Experientialist." His art work includes drawing, concept based systems, video art, net art, public projects, and more. Common themes are American sports like baseball and basketball, humor, theater, and urban spaces. He has a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the California College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree from San Jose State University. He is currently a professor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Projects

Many of Walton's projects involve subtle changes in the rules of sports like golf and basketball. For example, Walton organized a free throw contest with basketball player, Shaquille O'Neal, but O'Neal was not aware of it. In [http://www.leewalton.com/projects/lee_vs_shaq/index.html Walton Vs. Shaq] , Lee Walton recorded the number of free throws O'Neal shot and scored, and would shoot the same number of free throws in a park in Brooklyn the following day. His free throws were videotaped and published on his website after each game. [http://leewalton.com/index_freethrow.html]

In another piece, [http://www.leewalton.com/projects/shot_a_day/index.html One Shot A Day] , Walton changed the rules of golf and made one swing each day. Playing 18 holes this way took him close to 5 months, from March 26 to August 15 in 2003. During that period, each day he published a video of his swing on his website. [http://leewalton.com/projects/Shot_new_home.html]

Exhibitions and Collections

Walton has created projects at the Reykjavik Art Museum of Iceland, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Berlin, and Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Art in General, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Glowlab's Conflux Festival in New York. Walton is also in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Fact|date=February 2008

References

External links

* [http://www.leewalton.com/ LeeWalton.com]
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/424375354/lee-walton.html Lee Walton on Artnet] drawings based on baseball games.
* [http://soex.org/LeeWalton.html Lee Walton] from Southern Exposure (art space)