Florida is so fun with her
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QUEUE Gallery is pleased to present the first Miami solo exhibition, Florida is so fun with her, by artist Ryan Lee. Born in Sacramento, California and having recently moved to Miami, Lee’s approach to painting is shaped by lived experience, acute social observation, and a humor rooted in punk realism. Working primarily with airbrush, his paintings are composed from casual photographs captured by himself and friends, focusing on contradictory, grotesque, overlooked, abject, and ordinary spaces. Rather than assigning concrete narratives to the work, Lee gravitates towards images that genuinely move him, allowing contradiction, absurdity, and incompleteness to coexist in natural harmony. He is less interested in presenting resolved answers than in remaining open to the strange logic of instinct itself. The looseness of meaning itself becomes the meaning, letting instinct and contradiction guide the work rather than forcing it toward neat conclusions. Across the works are traces of desire, shame, loneliness, humor, carelessness, and value; channeling moments of honesty embedded within everyday life. In a state as elusive and contradictory as Florida itself, Lee’s work leans toward the beautiful reminder that freedom can emerge from abandoning certainty and occasionally prioritizing fun. PS: Our beautiful friend alemoros Alejandra Moro’s show, Chicle y Polvo, at __tunnel will also be having its closing reception downstairs in the parking lot that same evening. Come celebrate two very special local artists with us. Looking forward to seeing y’all there x
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