Circuit (2018)
Circuit (2018)
Artist: Anthony Lee
Medium: Mural
Location: Germantown Athletic Club, 1801 Exeter Rd Germantown, TN 38138
Circuit was designed to stimulate the eye and mood of individuals who use the indoor walking track at the Germantown Athletic Center. Lee selected a palette of warm colors to subconsciously relate to the raising of one's heart-rate while exercising.
These warm colors attract and arouse the viewer and follow the directional flow of the tracks users; ascending the colors to climax in the center of the pattern and structure, and then descending the same colors back into rest at the cooler violet end of this hue range. This color transition is similar to a single repetition of a push-up or shoulder-press, where there is an arching rest position or start, and then the push into full extension, and then return.
In addition the long-scale color gradation contains a significant amount of the color hot pink, which has been shown to suppress the appetite of most people- which seemed appropriate for an Athletic Center.
Anthony Lee
Anthony D. Lee (b.1979) has been influenced by the culture and heritage of the places that he’s lived, though he considers himself a Memphis Native. Lee credits his West Indian roots as an important contributing factor in his creative development- his vivid palette was inspired in St. Croix, of the U.S. Virgin Islands, his boyhood home. During the 1990s, Lee was a student of Bill Hicks, a teacher who doubled as an instructor at the nearby Memphis College of Art. The artist studied briefly at NC State's School of Design in 2001, after having served a stint as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army's 82d Airborne Division.
Lee's initial body of works were mixed-media panels with heavy color saturation and symbolic narrative content. His work has been featured at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Powerhouse, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis College of Art, Arkansas Arts Center, National Civil Rights Museum, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, and several galleries throughout the U.S. He has also created many public art projects and large-scale mural works, of which one was nationally recognized and awarded in 2009. His au courant mode of painting is geometric abstraction with neo-minimalist sensibilities that echo Ellsworth Kelly and Peter Halley.
