City Art Gallery Painters


	The Artist in his Studio

*Angel of the Annunciation* Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas 34" x 24"	*The Christening Gown of Joan Miro, Blue* Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas 40" x 30"

*The Collector* Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas 40" x 40" SOLD!!	*Madame Recamier* Multi Media on Canvas 34" x 24"

*Young Harlequin* Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas 20" x 16"	*The Gardeners* Multi Media on Canvas 30" x 40"

*The Frost* Encaustic Collage 20" x 16"	*The Spring Maiden* Encaustic Collage 20" x 16"

*American Beauty Rose* Multi Media Collage on Plexiglass 10" x 8"	*Madonna of the Libretto* Multi Media Collage on Plexiglass 10" x 8" SOLD!

*The Persian Prince* Multi Media Collage on Plexiglass 10" x 8"	*Psyche* Multi Media Collage on Plexiglass 10" x 8"

*Cupid* Multi Media Collage on Plexiglass 10" x 8" SOLD!!	*The Mask* Multi Media Collage on Plexiglass 10" x 8"

*Harliquin* Multi Media Collage on Plexiglass 10" x 8 SOLD!!

Louis St.Lewis is a compelling artist from Chapel Hill, North Carolina who, has gained considerable exposure and recognition for a wide range of creative endeavors including painting, sculpture and collage. He is also known for reliefs and assemblage works which rely on actual dimensional objects for their symbolic support. St. Lewis is one of a number of artists working today with a fascination for the past. His work generally plays off classic Greek and Roman themes, or early 19th century images which he subverts and updates to address a range of contemporary issues.. His style is an eclectic mix of expressionism and pop, figuration and abstraction, narrative and decoratio.- combining fragments of diverse source material-which when removed from their original context and placed within his work - take on new, often symbolic meaning.

St. Lewis recognizes that to understand the present, you must know the past. His works are a pointed reminder that myths are the stories of our quest through the ages for meaning and truth; and that mythology can provide clues to the problems and issues we face as a society today. For St. Lewis, mythology is the guidepost in his own search for answers; and while each work makes clear reference to the source from which they are drawn, the stories are rescripted to satisfy his own fantasies and interests.

I quickly realized that St. Lewis is one of those individuals whose work doesn’t stop at the edge of the canvas, so to speak. Instead, it infuses all aspects of his life, from the wayhe talks to the way he dresses to the way he decorates his environment where he lives and works. On one level, he’s a performance artist for whom the performance never ends, and his individual paintings, collages and assemblages are props and pieces of the constantly evolving stage set that his studio and the world-at-large comprise for him.

The artworks of Louis St. Lewis are found in the permanent collections of several prominent museums, as well as well as in numerous private collections worldwide.