What Others Are Saying About Lee Groban's Work
  • Although his work may be considered surreal, it still has that Joey Heatherton magic to it, in a Neo-Dada a-go-go kind of way.

    KRINGO

  • America is a bleak landscape of non art. It is only the shining beacon of light that is Lee Groban which sustains the limelight on this land of fast declining freedoms. Groban is a ship which floats alone in the ocean of society. Here comes an iceberg! Every man for himself! For on the Good Ship Groban, there are no lifeboats.

    IGNATIO MONTESOURRI, Liberal Forum Republic magazine

  • There's a subversive quality to his line work, but I doubt that he is a danger to consensus reality at this point. If he gets his hands on more markers, though, stand back and watch out for flying glass!

    MAC FONTAINE, Las Vegas entertainer

  • If poetry was lycopene, Groban would be the entire 2006 Mexican tomato crop!

    MAX FAIRBANKS, Author

  • In my experience, it is rare for a U.S. artist to have achieved such levels of accomplishment in such a wide variety of media. This artist of multi media multi magnitude offers up a banquet for gluttonous consumption. There is no need to starve or merely taste-test. Feast on, I say to those whose souls beg for nourishment, whose throats are parched, and whose stomachs long to be filled. Groban forces each of us to confront our psychological appetite as we face the ultimate personal challenge whether to swallow or spit.

    LOUIE BUTLER, Restaurant Critic

  • There are high and low pressures combined with wind currents which create the ebb and flow of patterns on our planet, and yet Lee Groban has masterfully shown us a way to navigate without instruments, to abandon our dependence on a universal control panel which guides us in to a safe aesthetic arrival.

    SHENT DRAID, Art Critic, Norwegian Aeronautic Debate magazine

  • My hectic schedule does not permit me to address the importance of this artist's work in a mere quote, but I promise I will pen an essay on this subject very soon.

    HEINRICH NASTA, Art Critic, Oslo Bi-Annual Journal of Occasional Critique

What Lee Groban Says About Himself
  • I have lived in Chicago all of my life. I grew up on the Southeast Side.

  • I have a B.A. In Russian Language and Area Studies from the University of Illinois (Urbana) and a M.A. In Library Science from Northern Illinois University. I'm a published artist and have had my artwork displayed in a few well-known entertainment clubs and other places and galleries or art exhibitions. I had artwork published in a Leo Burnett pamphlet/flyer/poster for a college radio station and in a self-published book funded by city government grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and also in Raw Vision magazine published in England.

  • The subjects for my artwork I arranged based on what I would call "Avant-Garde Blueprint" line patterns which are distorted hand-printed phrases & names in distorted lettering.

  • The main purpose of me creating my art this way is to make viewers aware of "new ways" or different ways of looking at things by bringing out the sub-conscious or new awareness visually. The other (possible) purpose of me creating my art this way is to prove to the world that I'm not merely a "Bourgeois Bohemian" or apathetic "Super-dilettante par excellence" who spouts off utterly meaningless flowery blabber and pedantia.

  • My work is about, or represents whatever is expressed
    that's sub-consciously repressed
    or sub-consciously suppressed.
    Note that this explanation/statement rhymes.

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