Gary Lee-Nova, born Gary Nairn, is a Canadian painter, printmaker, sculptor, and filmmaker.
11 Facts About Gary Lee-Nova
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Gary Lee-Nova has studied, collected, and corresponded with Burroughs, and sometimes carried Burroughsian thinking in new directions in his art-making, Lee-Nova has said.
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Gary Lee-Nova has said that his thinking about art was aided by the use of hallucinogenic drugs as well as by what he calls philosophies such as Zen Buddhism that were becoming popular in the 1950s.
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Early in his exhibition history, Gary Lee-Nova held a joint show in Vancouver with Claude Breeze who assisted him in his development.
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Gary Lee-Nova started making films in 1965 and produced Steel Mushrooms in 1967 in collaboration with Dallas Selman.
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Gary Lee-Nova worked with the spectrum as a motif and thereby began the Image Bank's Colour Bar Research project.
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Gary Lee-Nova continued to be a key figure on the West Coast Scene in the early 1970s, working with electronic media and film as well as painting and printmaking.
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Gary Lee-Nova continued to work on projects that might take years to execute, or be created with other artists.
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Gary Lee-Nova's work has been exhibited at galleries such as the Vancouver Art Gallery, Bau-Xi Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, the Western Front, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the Burnaby Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, the Demarco Gallery and the Paris Biennale.
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Gary Lee-Nova's papers are in the Gary Lee-Nova Fonds, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver.
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Gary Lee-Nova has been a teacher at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Chairperson Interdisciplinary Studies Division, lecturer in linguistics, semiotics and media history for 7 years and an instructor in Drawing and Computer Applications for about 25 years.