Maggie Lee

Art Brokerage: Maggie Lee America Artist: b. 1987. Lee approaches her practice, which spans sculpture, film, and zines, in the spirit of collage and its associations with DIY. Often girly—hearts, dolls, stickers, and sparkling twine figure heavily—but never twee, her work regularly invokes early aughts suburbia, quoting elements such as stained-glass car decals, animations, and home videos; and that era's earnest and exploratory internet culture with odes to blogging and message boards. "All the elements in the installation make a collage," she says, "the artworks are fixtures… a backdrop" for the interactions of those who enter the space. The title of the display, Daytime Sparkles, implies that sparkles are traditionally the domain of the nighttime, requiring the contrast of darkness to shine. Lee reminds us that even when the sun is burning bright, we still need to steal (shoplift?) moments of illumination. The work here, Lee notes, "is a piece of glitter floating in a black-and-white world." —Sophia Larigakis Listings wanted.