ARTIST TALK

*FY2019 Grant Recipient*
Acts of Painting - William D. Lewis
ARTIST TALK Friday, December 7, 7PM
Exhibit Open: Friday, November 2, 7PM - January 5, 2019

The painter's studio and the processes involved in painting are subject to much romanticism and myth. Every
painter has been asked "Do you paint in oils?" as if it were a mysterious, magical medium requiring arcane
knowledge. And certainly painters are guilty of slyly promoting this belief.

Making paintings is a funny business - one minute seeming completely absurd (full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing), the next quite possibly heroic (replete and teeming with significance). The works in William
Lewis’s ‘Acts of Painting’ grew out of contemplating this spectrum of attitudes, beliefs and feelings associated
with life in the studio. Lewis has employed varied and contradictory modes over the two years spent working
this vein - from parody to mock heroic, noir-ish melodrama to confessional.
Image: William D. Lewis, Confrontation, oil on canvas, 70"x 60", 2018