April, 2010
Artist Lee Littlefield is known for installing his colorful “Pop-Ups†— painted bayou-inspired sculptures made from natural materials like vines, bald cypress wood and bamboo — alongside Houston highways, first on a renegade basis, then with the permission of the Texas Department of Transportation and Harris County Flood Control.
Littlefield’s New World Bamboo Flowers and Rings on Bissonnet helped spruce up the CAMH grounds and proved his wild art thrives in captivity — more so than many of the other do-it-yourself public art projects, which felt tamed by the institutional setting.
There’s plenty of bending and twisting in Liza Littlefield’s watercolors, too. Metallic masks seem to spew vines from their mouths, setting up a dialogue with the vegetal and floral forms of Lee Littlefield’s wall-mounted sculptures.
In fact, works from Liza Littlefield’s Vigilante series, which feature vengeful birds punishing humans for wreaking havoc on the environment, couldn’t be more timely in light of recent images from the BP oil spill.
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