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Jivan Lee is an award-winning artist based in Taos, NM. With thick paint and bold color, his work explores the energetic relationship between abstract, expressive, and representational. Jivan grew up in Woodstock, NY, and studied painting at Bard College with contemporary New York City painters Joseph Santore and Laura Battle. Since graduating, Jivan has painted throughout the US and in Italy, Ghana, and Mexico. His art has been shown nationally in solo and group shows. He is the recipient of awards for his art, environmental work, and for a thematic art project on Northern New Mexico agriculture. Plein Air Magazine calls him “a terrific plein air painter.” Jivan shows at Joe Wade Fine Art in Santa Fe, NM; Galerie Kornye West in Fort Worth, TX; and, Jack Leustig Imaging in Arroyo Seco, NM. He teaches at the University of New Mexico and the Project for Art and the Environment.