Artist Statement

Through discarded and found materials that once possessed former lives, Bruce Lee Webb gives life to forgotten objects and tells a never-ending story of the past through his timeless creations. Having grown up surrounded by his grandparent’s immense collection of esoteric literature, antique novels, folk art, and artifacts, Webb was left pervasively influenced to create. In 1935, Bruce’s grandparents Helen Harding and Edward Davis worked as missionaries in the mountains and jungles of Kerala, South India. For over 20 years, they collected an abundance of woodcarvings, textiles, and literature during their practice. Along the way, they had Bruce’s mother and eventually moved back to their hometown of Waxahachie, Texas.

In the early 1980s, Bruce got involved with the underground punk rock and skateboarding scene in Dallas, Texas. It was at this time he met his wife Julie, and cooperated with her on their cut-and-paste magazine “Bad Karma”. From the very beginning of his oeuvre, Webb was drawn to using discarded materials as his canvases. From book pages and sheet music to bed linens and seed bags, Webb repurposes forsaken pieces to express spiritual definitions, folklore, and occult and fraternal history. He aims to tell a story and preserve the forgotten lore of the past.

Bruce Lee Webb resides in Waxahachie, Texas with his wife Julie. The two own and operate “Webb Gallery”, a stationary time vessel of their past travels, artwork, antiques, books, and soul finds. Located in both Waxahachie and Fort Davis, Texas, the establishments preserve and share Bruce’s familial history and experiences with Southern folk and visionary artists of West Texas.