Spotlight Artist

Miles Lewis

Pacific Coast
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Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

To me, unusual points of contact are the granular make-up of change, progress, humor, and diversity. Unoriginally, I think that this ability to create tactile metaphors represents the special purpose of drawing and painting. I’m currently sorting that out through the human, a kind of black-and-pink meditation on simple contact, the body, and queer sexuality. In any case, I find this way of making pictures to be the most useful and developmental way for me to record and communicate unifying thoughts.

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