Most of my paintings have the titles and signature painted on the back of the support that the canvas is stretched over.  Here is a time lapse of the making of the logo for War Bells.

Nathan Lewis from Gorky's Granddaughter on Vimeo.

Gorky's Grandaughter is a site run by painters Chris Joy and Zach Keeting.  Each video is a studio visit to an artists space and the conversation that ensues.  In my segment, you can see some current and in process work and one of the spaces that inspired the work.

Untitled from Nathan Lewis on Vimeo.

We held a figure drawing event at SHU in conjunction with the Aldrich Museum's DRAW ON!, a 2 week celebration of drawing in the community.

One of the old factories burnt down in Seymour that backs up to an historic cemetery.  Roland and I snuck in to get some pictures. He for his film. Me for a few paintings.  I've been sneaking into buildings since my teens.  Chris Cobb showed me how to get into an abandoned mill where my grandfather once worked.  In the BMXing days we would find abandoned pools to ride in. One of the Winchester Factories in New Haven that is now gone, Roland and I went into as well.  

An ear from a painting I've been working on.  Hair is still a mess.  you can see me struggling to settle on colors.  It's great in a painting when the drawing is there and the values get really close to what you see.  The illusion kicks up fast and it makes you feel like light is coming from the brush.  

This was my attempt to explain brush types to my students.

One of my favorite scenes from Waiting for Godot.

Footage of the making of the painting below.

Here is a time lapse of a new installation titled "crossroads" done for my show at the Windsor Art Center, which opens September 25th.  The sculpture was inspired by a painting done a couple of years ago titled "Invisible Cities".  In the painting is a signpost with forgotten lands from literature, myths and fables.  The installation continues and multiplies this train of thought.  The painting, seen below, was loaned for the show, so there should be an interesting dialog between the painting and sculpture.  

One of the signs in "crossroads" is labeled "Procopia" which is a chapter in Calvino's Novel about a land that Marco Polo visits each year.  He stays in the same room of an inn and stares out the window.  The first year, he see no people in the landscape. The following year he sees a few people in the far distance.  Each year he returns he sees more and more people through the window until one year, the people are so numerous that they occupy the space in the room on Marco's side of the window.   I decided to put that sign as the first sign on the installation, seeing it as a metaphor for the whole piece.   What was only imagined through a window (the  two dimensional painting)  has expanded into the real (three dimensional space).  

There will be 10 works of mine in the show, including 2 new unseen paintings and a recent drawing.  I have done time lapses of the paintings as well, so look for them to come soon.