Come see painter Stanley Lewis lecture on his work this Wednesday, October 20th, 2pm Textor 103. This event just follows the opening of his solo exhibition at Lohin Geduld Gallery New York, NY that has opened to rave reviews. *Sponsored by the Ithaca College Art Department
About Stanley Lewis:
It is an honor to have Stanley Lewis come and share his ideas as he speaks about his work as well as the painters who have made a large impact on him throughout his long career. Stanley Lewis’s passion for painting has earned him great accolades such as winning the Guggenheim in 2005 to the Altman Prize from the National Academy of Design. Following is a recent review of his solo exhibition at Lohin Geduld Gallery written by Lance Esplund for the Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2010
“Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes” By Lance Esplund
Stanley Lewis (b. 1941) sometimes works over the course of years on a single drawing or painting. The exactitude, transfixing light, and deep, rushing spaces of his landscapes—often made up of cut and layered pieces of paper or canvas, and reconfigured with staples or glue—make up for their tattered states.
Sixteen oils and eight ink or pencil drawings—views mostly of a train station, a college campus, a lake, suburban yards and houses—make up this impressive show, his first at Lohin Geduld. In many of these landscapes, we look through densely packed vegetation. Yet the tangle of foreground growth, the middle-ground trees and the distant architecture—tiny houses nestled neatly in deep pockets—all read independently, lucidly. In summer paintings of Chautauqua Lake, Mr. Lewis evokes distant horizon, humidity and the twinkle of light on water. In the small, creamy and idyllic "Winter Scene Leeds, MA" (2008), through rose-hued sky and snow he captures dusk-gray light. Also included here, painted in the artist's own backyard, are two small winter oils of wooden steps leading down to the driveway. Their crystalline snow, skeletal trees and frigid light are so clear and cool they nearly made my feet ache. Fueled by faithfulness, fortitude and precision, Mr. Lewis's drawings and paintings are among the most exhilarating landscapes being produced today.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20101018120305763