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In Praise of Shadows
(2022)
Abstract
Prof. Nathan Lewis (Art) has 113 original artworks in his solo show "In Praise of Shadows," at California State University Stanislaus. The exhibition, heavily inspired by Dante, explores themes of darkness, temptation, and desire.
In Nathan Lewis’s paintings, things are always falling apart or coming together. In almost every situation, his buildings, people, skeletons, the stormy weather itself - all his subjects - are assigned a restless fate. It’s a sensibility that is like a camera flash catching the chaotic motion of an event and then freezing it in space. In this way his concerns feel less like that of a painter who is concerned with surface and more like that of a sculptor who is concerned with issues of space and time. it’s clear he is engaged in a conversation with art history as much as he is with crisis.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2022
Comments
Exhibition at California Statue University Stanislaus held February 10-March 17, 2022.
Citation Information
Nathan Lewis. "In Praise of Shadows" (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/nathan_lewis/19/