Gallery Exhibit Archives: April - Vern Lewis - Appropriating Nature, Religion and Surrealism

                       Painter

See more of this artist's work at his website: vlewisart.com

Statement

Using the "start with a broom, finish with a needle" painting technique, I am appropriating rudiments of nature and/or religious iconography in a surrealist manner. Robert Henri, of the Ashcan School, taught that painters should paint ideas. I strive to paint ideas. Ideas that consciously and unconsciously develop to reveal rolling, pattern-infused landscapes, spheres, figurative forms and movement. When starting work, my ideas are broad, vague and rarely fixed with determined visions, so paintings evolve by chance, usually conveying what is or is not working along the way.

All work is acrylic on canvas.

Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio (with deference to these mentors):

• Cindy Tiedemann, B.F.A.
• Annamary Bierley, M.F.A.
• Curtis Barnes, Sr., B.S.

Some Favorites:

• Emily Carr, 1871-1945
• George Bellows, 1882-1925
• Lawren Harris, 1885-1970
• Franklin Carmichael, 1890-1945)
• Kay Sage, 1898-1963
• Aminah Robinson, 1940-2015

Nighttime toiling in uncertainty;
stumbling to pictures that pop
Painting worries to infinity;
maybe... not for naught.

Vern Lewis

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Who's scheduled to exhibit art in the library 2019:

January  - OPEN
Mid - February through March - Steven Riggs - Oils, Graphite, & Portraits
April - Vernon Lewis
May - OPEN
June - Mark Fohl - Colorful Columbus
July - Michael Cooley
August - W. C. Hemming - Acrylic
September - Daryl Brown - Oils, Watercolors, and Drawings
October - Cecilia Roman
November - Sherlann Lewandowski - Mixed Digital Illustrations
December - OPEN