A! Magazine for the Arts

Lee Coburn paints in his studio in Glade Spring, Va.

Lee Coburn paints in his studio in Glade Spring, Va.

"From These Hills" — Lee Coburn

June 27, 2007

More pressing social commentary is apparent in the paintings of Lee Coburn [Glade Spring, Va.], which exhibit a certain enthusiasm and energy in their crusty surfaces and painterly brushwork of vibrant colors; while natural life forces signaling development and growth are suggested by the organic forms apparent in both of his paintings, in one painting current political realities are raised by images of falling bombs dramatically bursting across a beautifully horrible sky.

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