Jack Lewis
Jack Lewis was born London, England in 1987 and received his BFA in 2009 from the Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Lewis’ paintings and collages inhabit vast open spaces populated by isolated figures and various objects. Using stylistic images of 1950’s Americana as a platform for his paintings, Lewis also appropriates these images into mixed media collages, adopting the content and context of the original images to convey his own poignant meanings. By negotiating his American and European roots, symbols of the archetypal ‘hero’ emerge, as Cowboys, Red Indians, Lone Rangers, Matadors, and other Western motifs, which he sets against seemingly dislocated yet familiar landscapes.