Brooklyn based painter Rick Lewis grew up in the Texas Gulf Coast.
Rick received his MFA from the University of North Texas in 1992. He has had 16 solo
exhibitions and participated in over 30 group shows. His influences include Alberto Burri,
Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Antoni Tapies, Texan visionary painter Forrest Bess, East Asian
calligraphy, and Eastern philosophy.
He is a recipient of the Carol Cook Memorial Foundation Arts Award for Excellence in
Painting and several Artist in Residency awards including the Millay Colony Residency in
Austerlitz, NY, the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts in Bali, Indonesia, and the
Edward F. Albee Foundation in Montauk, NY.
Rick Lewis exhibits across the US, Hong Kong, and in London. His work is held in major
public and private collections throughout the world.

"I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painting employing the use of industrial materials: enamel paint, jute, plastic asphalt, muslin, cardboard, soil, marble dust, etc. Additionally sculpture and printmaking figures into my practice. My work is born out of relationships to or qualities within nature that connect with my psyche. The treatment of paint and material evokes environmental associations that are experienced and remembered through the body. The work has a present power to confront and resist conditioning towards shock value, immediate recognition of imagery, and the seduction of the virtual. Materiality is still the baseline power that painting is equipped with for it’s infinite possibilities. For the past 24 years I have been an active professional artist in New York, mounting local and international exhibitions of my own work and curating exhibitions and projects of fellow artists." -Rick Lewis