Andrew Lewis, Au bord du ruisseau, Ved Gjaetle-Bekken, By the brook, 2023. Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas. 58,5 × 124 cm (23 × 48 ⅞ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain DarnaudAndrew Lewis, C’est qui Denise ? – Who’s Denise please?, 2023. Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas. 103 × 138,2 cm (40 ½ × 54 ⅜ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain DarnaudAndrew Lewis, A quelques pas du Viel Ebeuf, not far from the Viel Ebeuf, 2023. Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas. 73 × 151,6 cm (28 ¾ × 59 ⅝ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain DarnaudAndrew Lewis, Vous savez qu’elles se rattraperont, They’ll get their own back you know, 2023. Huile sur toile / Oil on canvas. 148,4 × 110,2 cm (58 ⅜ × 43 ⅜ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain DarnaudVue d’exposition / Installation view Andrew Lewis, Au Bonheur des femmes, 2023. Art : Concept, Paris. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, ParisVue d’exposition / Installation view Andrew Lewis, Au Bonheur des femmes, 2023. Art : Concept, Paris. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, ParisVue d’exposition / Installation view Andrew Lewis, Au Bonheur des femmes, 2023. Art : Concept, Paris. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, ParisVue d’exposition / Installation view Andrew Lewis, Au Bonheur des femmes, 2023. Art : Concept, Paris. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, ParisSesquicentenial, 2017. Oil on canvas, 33 5/8 x 55 3/8 in. Public collection CNAP FR Le tube téléchrome / The Telechrome Tube, 2017. Oil on canvas, 51 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. Public collection CNAP FRLe tube téléchrome / The Telechrome Tube, detail, 2017. Oil on canvas, 51 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. Public collection CNAP FRCalais combi, 2017. Oil on canvas, 33 1/4 x 55 1/4 in. Public collection CNAP FRMaria, 2017. Oil on canvas, 29 1/2 x 51 1/8 in. Public collection CNAP FRInstallation view, Andrew Lewis, Vers une boîte éclairée / Crystal Palace Transmissions, 2018. Public collection CNAP FRInstallation view, Andrew Lewis, Vers une boîte éclairée / Crystal Palace Transmissions, 2018Installation view, Andrew Lewis, Vers une boîte éclairée / Crystal Palace Transmissions, 2018Sir Christopher Cam Cams, 2017. Oil on canvas, 42 7/8 x 47 3/4 in. AvailableV.A.B (Victoria & Albert Building), 2017. Oil on canvas, 44 1/8 x 35 5/8 in. AvailableField studies (les études en extérieur), 2012. Oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 39 5/8 in. AvailableField analysis (L’analyse en extérieur), 2012, oil on canvas, 28 x 51 in. AvailableDynamique de groupe (Group Dynamics), 2012, oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 35 3/8 x 1 3/8 in. Public collection : MONA, TasmaniaChez Elizabeth Wydeville (With Elizabeth Wydeville), 2012 oil on canvas, 43 1/4 x 35 3/8 x 1 3/8 in. Private collection FRChords of Affection, 2010. Mixed media, 74 3/4 x 82 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. AvailableHoedown, 2009, oil on wood and pastel, 36 1/4 x 51 5/8 in. Private collection NLL’avenir sera banal, 2009. Pastel and oil on wood, 55 1/8 x 32 1/4 in. Private collection NLFélicité, 2009, Pastel and oil-paint on wood panel, 53 3/4 x 37 1/4 in. Private collection NLVenus et Apollo, 2009. Oil on wood panel, 10 5/8 x 17 3/4 in. Private collection FRCouronne impériale, 2005. Diptych, digital print laminated on aluminum, 31 1/2 x 45 1/4 in. AvailableCouronne impériale, 2005. Diptych, digital print laminated on aluminum, 31 1/2 x 45 1/4 in. AvailableSur rendez-vous, 2005, C-print on aluminium, 45 1/4 x 31 1/2 in., ed 8. AvailableLes objets tendres, 2005. C-print on aluminium, 31 1/2 x 45 1/4 in. AvailablePas même mes rêves satisfont les vrais besoins de mon coeur, 2005, C-print on aluminium, 45 1/4 x 31 1/2 in., ed 8. AvailableInstallation view, Points de vues, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart, 2005Installation view, Points de vues, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart, 2005Futur Centre d’Espace International, 2003, charcoal pencil on paper, 47 1/4 x 31 1/2 in. AvailableL’igloo, 2003. Charcoal pencil on paper, 31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in. Private collection CHLa grande muraille de Chine, 2003. Charcoal pencil on paper. Private collection FRLa pagode (Chine), 2003. Charcoal pencil on paper, 31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in. AvailableLe château fort, 2003. Charcoal pencil on paper, 31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in. AvailableLutte d’espace, 2003, cardboard, wood, 78 3/4 x 70 7/8 x 63 in. Public collection: FRAC ALSACE FRSasha, 1993. Cardboard, 17 x 19 x 19 in. Private collection IT
Biography
Born in 1968 in London, Andrew Lewis lives and works in Argenton-sur-Creuse. He develops the idea of interaction between characters both human or sculpted and their immediate environment, which tends to create a group dynamic. His works show all the innovation and ingenuity that we’ve had to use to develop within the bosom of society which in turn has begun to function like an organism abolishing its own privileges, thus breaking the codes that it had eagerly created not so long before. Andrew Lewis intends to make an original synthesis between the painterly transposition of calm and hieratic characters and time in its most fleeing, mobile and evolving aspects. His figures evoke Robert Musil’s ones. They are men and woman without evident “qualities” who, once freed of the sediments of their own milieu and epoch, become extremely sensitive to all experiments and act as a sort of trans-historic multiple conscience.
His work is present in the following institutions: Arts Council Collection, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; FRAC Alsace, Sélestat; FRAC Limousin, Limoges. Exhibitions: Vers une boîte éclairée / Crystal Palace Transmissions, Art:Concept, Paris (2016); Les filtres harmoniques, Art:Concept (2012); Archi-Peinture, Le Plateau/Frac Ile-de-France, Paris & Camden Arts Center, London (2006).
He recently has been part of the following group shows: Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac/FR; Monument, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat/FR.
