Lee Dawson’s practice begins with intuitive mark-making, where loose gestures evolve into ambiguous, illusionistic figures that sit between abstraction and recognition. Though her compositions may appear chaotic or fantastical, they are rooted in lived experience and shaped by memory and perception rather than direct observation. In dialogue with painters like Sue Williams, Daniel Richter, and Cecily Brown, Dawson’s work emphasizes fluidity and transformation, producing images that feel both familiar and unstable while resisting fixed interpretation.