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Fingerboard Orchestra
02 August 2022
Fingerboard Orchestra: Amplifying the Sounds of ShreddingCollaboration with Derek Toomes The Fingerboard Skate Park Orchestra brings ...
Chess Paintings
10 January 2021
The Chess Paintings The Chess Paintings are process paintings. Each painting is a record of a specific chess game played between two of the ...
Rules and Hints For Community Engaged ...
08 July 2020
Rules and Hints for Community Engaged Arts Gracious contributions by 14 community engaged artists dedicated to social justice.If you would like ...
Virus Lecture Series
11 June 2020
Virus Lecture SeriesThis lecture performance on viruses and virus structures is my best attempt to interpret and repeat a 3-part lecture series by ...
Venice Walls
11 June 2020
Boston Yankees Three Game Series
18 January 2020
Outliving My Life Insurance Policy
02 January 2020
Out Living My Life Insurance: 20-Year Term1,040 weekly updates. Each documenting a strategic action for sustaining life.This project commenced August ...
Open Engagement: Emergent Futures
22 September 2019
Open Engagement 2019 / Emergent Futures: State of the FieldThree days of exchanges and social research in North Carolina's Triangle & ...
Rite of Spring Garden
18 August 2019
Rite of Spring GardenIn Conjunction with the Weatherspoon Art Museum and the UNCG School of Art Faculty BiennialIn this weekly performance, a ...
REMOTE INSTRUCTIONS
13 May 2019
Remote Instructions was new media project Commissioned by Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY.From my home, I collaborated with ...
LEE WALTON PLAYS THE WORLD
01 May 2019
Lee Walton Plays the World (On His Phone), Chess Performance in 40 Parts, 2013Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL Lee Walton ...
162 Baseball Systems
17 April 2019
THE SYSTEMS Each system is designed to create one drawing for the corresponding game.According to the system, the specific events that transpire ...
Golf Glove Scorecards (On-Going Series)
30 June 2018
Golf Glove System DrawingsThese system-based drawings record the events and outcomes of a round of golf. After each completed hole, I notate the ...
When The World's On Fire
15 May 2018
When the World’s on Fire, Collaboration with Jon Rubin, 2017We Are The Common, Public Art Work, Cambridge Commons, Cambridge, MA I was ...
Life/Theater: Art In General (NY)
15 May 2018
Life/Theater: Art In GeneralPart of the “Experiential Project" the inaugural installment of Art in General’s New Commission program. ...
Red Ball
17 April 2018
Red Ball was an early net-based participatory project that asked the public, "Where in the city of San Francisco can we put this little red ball?" ...
Some Systems
16 April 2018
SystemsMuch of Lee Walton’s work utilizes systems. Some of these systems are a lists of commands and predetermined responses to public ...
Experiential Project: Art In General
02 April 2018
The Experiential ProjectArt in General, Project Space, 2005These postcards became the access points for experiential interactions with shop owners, ...
Listening To The C
15 February 2018
Listening to the C, Collaboration with Laurent Estoppey, 201812X12 Series, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC Listening ...
FREE THROW COMPETITION
09 February 2018
Free Throw Competition: Lee Walton vs. Shaquille O’Neal2005 Season Shaquille O'Neal and I competed in a season long free throw ...
Just Passing Through
17 November 2017
Just Passing Through" engages with several important themes in the field of contemporary art. On a surface level, the clean black lines and lack of ...
redstorm
01 September 2017
Red Storm Baseball Drawings, 2018Diamonds, Rings and Courts: Sport is More Than a Game, St. Johns University, Queens, NY, Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art ...
The Flower King
24 April 2017
The Flower King, 2018Public Performance and Print Series, Print Guild, Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC Flower King was a printed ...
Super Bowl Drawing
16 April 2017
Super Bowl XLII, 2008New York Giants vs. New England Patriots. The Giants defeated the Patriots by the score of 17–14.System-based ...
The Competitionist
15 April 2017
Last Pick
31 March 2017
On Sept 20th, the night of the opening of the exhibition 'Art of Sport' at CEPA Gallery (Buffalo, NY), 69 visitors decided they wanted to compete to ...
Drawings For ATL Airport
02 March 2017
Atlanta Braves Baseball Drawings, 2017Airport Art Program at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport In 2016, I was invited to ...
LIVE WORLD SERIES DRAWING
06 February 2017
World Series Game One was an installation event in the main space of the gallery. For this live event, I created a game-based system for the ...
3 Baseball Drawings 2012
18 January 2017
MUSIC FOR GAS STATIONS
20 December 2016
Music For Gas Stations For Music For Gas Station, I toured with Ensemble Babel, an experimental group from Switzerland. As the video artist, I ...
LIFE/THEATER: HOT DOGS
15 December 2016
Life/Theater: Hot Dogs, 2014Buildering: Misbehaving the City, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio As part of the exhibition ...
Getting Up Over and Over Again
02 December 2016
Getting Up Over and Over Again Performed by Students at MIT2008 The Score Lay down, rest, then get up. Then lay ...
Room To Move
02 December 2016
YELLOW PEPPER
02 December 2016
Yellow Pepper: The Experiential Project, 2015UNCG School of Art, Faculty Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Yellow ...
The Far Side
29 November 2016
LAST PLACE: 2001 Walton Derby
14 November 2016
Last Place: The Walton Derby. 2001 + 2003Lee Walton teams up with Silent Gallery to have a pine car race.The objective is simple. Build the ...
AND THE WINNER IS
23 October 2016
AND THE WINNER IS And the Winner Is, 2012Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA And the Winner Is was a curatorial ...
City Golf Drift
25 September 2016
The 18-hour Drift starts on Oct 21st, 8am at Bryant Park. THE OBJECT: The object of this game is to create a series of 18 spatial ...
Pruning Dis-ease
17 September 2016
“Pruning Dis-ease” a metaphorical journey on race and ecology masquerading as a horticulture workshop on tree pruningScript Written By ...
ROB'S CAR IS FOR SALE
09 September 2016
Rob’s Car is for Sale, 2016Greensboro Project Space (GPS), Greensboro, NC During the summer of 2015, I dedicated my creative efforts ...
GLIMPSE
16 August 2016
Glimpse, Collaboration with Derek Toomes, 201712X12 Artist Salon Series, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC The ...
CHARCOAL CHESS TOURNAMENT
15 August 2016
Charcoal Chess Open Tournament, 2015Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, CA The Charcoal Chess Open ...
SUPER G EXPERIENTIAL RESIDENCY
30 June 2016
THE SUPER G EXPERIENTIAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM The Super G Experiential Residency ProgramThe Super G Experiential Residency Program was an active ...
162 SYSTEMS FOR BASEBALL GAMES
21 June 2016
There are 162 baseball games played in a regular Major League Baseball season.The project consists of 162 unique systems.The game number ...
The City System
13 June 2016
THE CITY SYSTEM is a game-based tool for meandering aimlessly around a city. Each journey is unique to the user and determined by occurrences, ...
GETTING A FEEL FOR THE PLACE
10 June 2016
Getting A Feel For The Place (2006) happened during a very quick trip to Belfast, Ireland.
PEOPLE'S BIENNIAL
10 June 2016
Mr. Coppers at The People's Biennial, Collaboration with Harriet Hoover, 2014Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI The People’s ...
Social Systems 6-16
08 June 2016
Social Systems drawings operate through an inherent system of responses in which each individual mark is in direct relationship to another. The ...
VIDEO PERFORMANCES
04 June 2016
My video performances are often situational and involve interactions, altercations and musings with (and through) public spaces. For example, in ...
WORLDS LONGEST SELFIE STICK
03 June 2016
World’s Longest Selfie Stick, 2015Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA The World’s Longest Selfie Stick was an interactive ...
ONE SHOT A DAY
03 June 2016
(Original text from And The Winner Is, at Haverford College)In 2003 Lee Walton completed One Shot a Day, a project which, true to its title, involved ...
The Sinquefield Cup: Chess Drawings
26 May 2016
Sinquefield Tournament Chess Drawings, 2015Locker Room Culture (Strategy, Play, and Commentary in Sports and Art), Grimshaw-Gudewicz ...
METS vs. LA
26 May 2016
National League Division SeriesNew York Mets vs - LA DodgersOctober, 2015Paper size 19 x 15
24-GAME WINNING STREAK
26 May 2016
Golden State Warriors 24-Game Winning Streak Drawings, 2018Crooked Data: (Mis) Information in Contemporary Art, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, ...
STICKMAN GOLF
25 May 2016
I created these drawings by tracing and mapping my efforts to play each new 9-hole golf course in Super Stickman Golf, a really challenging game ...
BASEBALL DRAWINGS
25 May 2016
Baseball drawings record actual baseball games through system-based notations of lines and marks that map play-by-play ...
SOCIAL SYSTEM DRAWINGS
25 May 2016
Social Systems drawings operate through an inherent system of responses in which each individual mark is in direct relationship to another. The ...
Basketball Drawings
24 May 2016
My drawings are records of events and actions. I often create system-based generative work in connection with professional sporting events, such as ...
PLACES WEVE NEVER BEEN
24 May 2016
Objects from Places We’ve Never Been, 2014RAYGUN LAB, Sydney, Australia In response to an invitation to create a solo-exhibition at RAYGUN ...
A LIVING RECORD
18 May 2016
Hillary Wiedemann: Living Record I performed a series of activities throughout the streets of NYC. I was followed and observed by Hillary ...
QUITTING
15 May 2016
Jason Quits His Job was a live action I orchestrated for the exhibition Revolutionary Spirit by Red 76.I placed an ad on Craiglist: "Seeking Person ...
ANGRY BIRD DRAWINGS
15 May 2016
Angry Bird DrawingsTranscriptions, Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY, 2012 The Angry Bird drawings were in response to the popular game Angry ...
DESTINATION SCULPTURES
15 May 2016
Destination Sculptures invite the public to remove sculptures from the exhibition space at specific times. Clear instructions for the final resting ...
FASTBALL
15 May 2016
The Art of Sport, (4 Projects), 2012CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY Curated by Craig Smith and funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the ...
MOMENTARY PERFORMANCES
15 May 2016
For Momentary Performances, I used vinyl text on city walls to announce ordinary moments that would take place in the future. These texts were ...
EXPERIENTIAL DECLARATIONS
15 May 2016
Experiential Declarations, 2012The First Annual Experiential Festival, RAYGUN LAB, Toowoomba, Australia In response to an invitation to create ...
F'BOOK, WHAT MY FRIENDS ARE DOING ON ...
15 May 2016
F’Book, What My Friends Are Doing On Facebook playfully explores the relationship between mainstream social media and issues of public/private ...
SERIAL CONVERSATIONALIST
15 May 2016
For the The Serial Conversationalist, I set out to have conversations with strangers that would be archived forever.The rules were simple.Select ...
35 Pounds: Purchased and Returned
15 May 2016
35 Pounds: Purchased and ReturnedIn 2003, I purchased a 35-Pound weight from Copeland Sporting Goods Store in downtown San Francisco. I then carried ...
WAPPENINGS
15 May 2016
Wappenings (Web / Happenings) are a series of web projects that challenge the peer‐to‐peer networked public to complete a particular task or ...
FATHER AND DAUGHTER VIEW THE EXHIBITION
15 May 2016
Father and Daughter View the Exhibition, 2012More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing Since the 1990s, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC Cheekwood ...
PLAYING APART
12 May 2016
Playing ApartCollaboration with Jon RubinPlaying Apart dismantled an entire 90 piece marching band into single performers that utilized the whole ...
GIVING IT UP FOR LIFE
11 May 2016
Union Square: Giving It Up For Life On Friday, September 15th effective precisely at noon, I left Union Square Park in NY never to return again. ...
AMBULATORY GAMBIT
08 May 2016
AMBULATORY GAMBIT Ambulatory Gambit (2001) was a public art performance project that I created with Jeannene Przyblyski and her students of the ...
HIDING BEHIND THINGS
03 May 2016
Hiding Behind Things is a series of photos of me hiding behind things. Photos were taken by Tristin Miller.
LIFE/THEATER JERRY GORALNICK
23 April 2016
LIFE/THEATER: JERRY GORALNICK For 62 days, a professional actor performed a scripted lunchtime routine that seamlessly blended with real life at ...
EXPERIENTIAL FICTION
23 April 2016
EXPERIENTIAL FICTION Curated by Laura Mott, Experiential Fiction was a project that hid four short stories secretly in four different public ...
BATTER WINS / PITCHER WINS: A CARD GAME
21 April 2016
BATTER WINS | PITCHER WINS What you need: A standard deck of cards (no Jokers)Number of Players:TwoGame Play (9 Innings)Without looking, a ...
NBA 7 Game Series
16 April 2016
Miami Heat vs San Antonio Spurs7-game Series, 2012-2013 SeasonSystem-based DrawingOne small rectangle equals 1-minute of game time. 48 rectangles per ...
Just Walk Away
15 April 2016
Opening Day Video Performance
11 April 2016
The Things Challenge at HCA
10 April 2016
The Project Space (2001)(Marin, California) Headlands Center for the ArtsLocated at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Project Space is a large ...
Wappening #2
01 April 2016
WAPPENING #2February 10, 2006(New York, NY) WITHOUT ANY NOTICE, THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT WAS POSTED ON MY WEBSITE: At this very moment, ...
Book Club (With Harvery loves Harvey)
29 March 2016
Book Club (with Harvey Loves Harvey)2006 For Book Club, Harvey Loves Harvey (a collaboration between artists Jason Dean and Matthew Nash) and ...
Following The Man In The Crowd
09 February 2016
'Following "The Man of the Crowd"' was a 24-hour walk in which Christina Ray and I, linked by text messaging, drifted separately through NYC in an ...
3 Basketball Drawings on Paper
18 January 2016
Florida Marlins Baseball Drawing 2012
18 January 2016
GARBAGE DAY
13 January 2016
Garbage Day (2006) I orchestrated a seven-hour performance called "Garbage Day". Walton scripted a performance in which Theodore Bouloukos, a ...
Making Changes
13 January 2016
For Making Changes (2006-ongoing), I drift through my neighborhood making changes.
27 Piles of Shaving Cream: One-Mile ...
13 January 2016
For 27 Piles of Shaving Cream: One Mile Radius (2012), I drew a perfect circle on a map, within a radius of 2-miles, making my home in Greensboro at ...
Trailer For A Day (In The Future)
07 January 2016
Trailer for a Day (In the Future) For this project, I collaborated with Proper Medium, a film company in Atlanta Georgia. We made a trailer for ...
MOST AVERAGE BOWLERS
07 January 2016
Lee Walton's Search for The Most Average Bowlers (2009) A public bowling tournament organized with FACE TO FACE of Greensboro, NC Over 100 ...
LAST PLACE
07 January 2016
For this early social practice project, I worked with Silent Gallery to create LAST PLACE: The 2001 (and 2003) Walton Derby. Participants ...
Early Drawing Performance
19 October 2015
Early drawing that explored movement and actions in space. This led to performance-based work, such as OPENING DAY, Below. A 3-hour video performance ...
The Animateurs
08 August 2015
The Animateurs, The Power Plant Contemporary Art GalleryExhibition: Not Quite How I Remember It (2008) For his project, I collaborated ...
When I Get There
07 August 2015
When I Get There, Washington State University, Tri-Cities (2007)A collaboration with the Digital Technology and Culture Club, Professor Douglas ...
DRIBBLE
09 June 2015
Dribble ProjectEach morning for the duration of 2 months, I dribbled a basketball back and forth 36th Street between 7th and 9th Avenue in Midtown ...
EXPERIENTIAL BLUES TOUR
16 May 2015
For Experiential Blues Tour, I traveled to small towns I had never been to before and signed up for the Open Blues Jams. I publicly announced ...
Wappening #3
03 April 2015
WAPPENING #3 New York, NY ORIGINAL WEBSITE ANNOUNCEMENT: On Saturday, June 9th precisely at Noon, an attractive, single and slightly ...
The Extra
14 January 2015
The Extra2004—ongoing dream A series of audition clips in which I show directors my potential to act like myself with aspirations of ...
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