Peter Wayne Lewis "Paintings from the Middle Earth Part IV"

Skoto Gallery

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Skoto Gallery presents Paintings from the Middle Earth Part IV, an exhibition of recent paintings by the Jamaican-American artist Peter Wayne Lewis. This will be his first solo exhibition at the gallery. The artist will be at the reception on Thursday, January 17th, 2013

Peter Wayne Lewis’s work exudes exuberant energy and vitality that draws on a highly developed experimental approach to making art that seeks to balance spatial and structural concerns with an awareness of a vast array of both formal and inherited traditions, deep sensitivity to texture, tonality and color. A master of lyrical and sensitive lines, he uses resplendent curves and fluid lines that utilizes a particular rigor and economy which encourages a clarity of intent and simplicity of execution. There is a high degree of originality in his work that belies a surprising seamlessness between the natural world and the world of imagination. There is also value for spontaneity and improvisation in his work that engages the viewer directly and viscerally as ideas are distilled into swirling or meandering marks fused with sophisticated tonalities and a desire to portray social, spiritual and utopian transformations that speak clearly and boldly to a universal audience. The question of where the inside and outside world meet, the ambiguity of space and surface tension are formally resolved in his work by an emphasis on concept and process over end product while maintaining rigorous affirmative critical propositions about discrete cultural and historical realities.

For the artist whose work is persistently innovative and ignores boundaries between different cultural heritages and socially constructed constraints, the interplay of intention and accident, curiosity and discovery as well as the ability to reduce forms and ideas to their essence are inherent qualities that help convey the true harmonies of his artistic vision, and as recently stated by the artist. "I am concerned with how to feel the lyrical rhythm of the world. Intention is in my paintings. For me, the painting is about order, chaos, gravity, speed, time and light. These are the building blocks of the ephemeral world in which we dwell. My goal is to look deeper and leave a residue of that investigation". His influences are diverse and include nature, physics and the String Theory that discusses the majesty of existence and the Cosmos as well as Jazz music. The syncopated and disjunctive rhythmic complexity in this uniquely African-American music genre called jazz epitomizes the boundless imagination and inventiveness inherent in his work. The selection in this exhibition evokes the expansive possibilities of life and art in a world of changing realities and ceaseless change.

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from January 17, 2013 to February 23, 2013

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