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With great pleasure, Light Work presents Trap and Lean-to, a solo exhibition of photographs by Oakland-based artist Dionne Lee. A multimedia artist, Lee employs video, collage, photography, and sculpture to explore American landscape and her place within its complex history. As an African American woman, she sees the natural world as a place of refuge and tranquility as well as one of racial violence, danger, and vulnerability. More broadly, her work acknowledges the terror of climate change, mass migration, and humanity’s ongoing drama of survival. Duality is a frequent feature of Lee’s …