Artist Studio Tour | Tony Lewis Studio

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Please join us at Tony Lewis' studio in McKinley Park for a private tour led by the artist. Lewis will guide SCA members through three distinct, small studio spaces, providing a deep dive into his drawings. The tour will be followed by a reception featuring Korean-Polish fusion eats catered by Kimski and creative cocktails crafted by Tony himself. The full space will be open for visitors to walk around for the remainder of the visit.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

In an ever-expanding engagement with drawing, Lewis harnesses the medium of graphite powder to confront such social and political topics as race, power, communication, and labor. The material provides a literal and conceptual foundation for the artist's work, as it is stretched, smudged, rubbed, spliced, and folded across a variety of handmade and found surfaces. Graphite powder is an inherently unruly medium, a substance that threatens to wander. Lewis nurtures this dispersal, allowing the powder to build into a ubiquitous state that settles upon and indiscriminately marks paper surfaces; the graphite-slick studio floor becomes a "tool the same way a pencil is a tool."

Lewis's work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA (2023); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2018); Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2017); Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy (2016); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (2015). He participated in the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY and was the recipient of the 2017-2018 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Recent group exhibitions include WORKS BY, curated by Dieter Roelstraete at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm, curated by Jacob Fabricius at the Art Sonje Center in Seoul, Korea (2022); Grain of a Hand, curated by Isabel Casso at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2022); In These Truths, curated by Edreys Wajed, Aitina Fareed Cooke, and Aaron Ott at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2022).