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Sydell Lewis
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Biography
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I have been captivated by both the arts and science from an early age. I received my art training in New York City, at the High School of Music and Art and Cooper Union Art School. In addition I have a chemistry degree from the University of Michigan and I have worked as a research mass spectrometrist until 1992 when I became a full time exhibiting painter and printmaker.
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Statement
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THE VESSEL SERIES: This suite of acrylic paintings explores still life as both texture and metaphor. Round voluptuous vessels are mirrors of the human female form and function. I select classical forms for repositories, vases, jugs etc, and juxtapose them with fragments of familiar forms: windows, computer keys, lattices, stippled walls, etc.
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Exhibitions
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Solo Exhibitions
2003 Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA, July,
2002 Stanford University Art Spaces, Stanford ,CA, July-August,
Gallery 9, Los Altos, CA, October
2001 Octavia's Haze Gallery, San Francisco, CA September,
Gallery House, Palo Alto, CA May
2000 Gallery 9, Los Altos, CA, May
1998 Gallery 9, Los Altos, CA, February
1994 Aegis Gallery, Saratoga, CA, June
1993 Elizabeth Norton Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, January
1982 University of CA, S.F Extension Gallery, S. F.,CA, August
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 Bay Model Gallery, Sausilito,CA, Society of Printmakers. Oct
Works Gallery, San Jose, CA.
CA Society of Printmakers, Jan
San Francisco City Hall,S.F., CA Society of Printmakers, March
2003 Thatcher Gallery, U. of S. F, SF., CA, "Radical Printmakers" CA, March
2001 Triton Museum , Santa Clara, CA, CA Society of Printmakers, October
2000 S. F. Arts Commission, Radical Printmaking 2000, S.F. ,CA, August
Mentor Graphics, San Jose, CA September-November
Nortel , Inc., Santa Clara, CA February, 2000
1999 Claudia Chapline Gallery, CA, CSP Annual, Mill Valley, CA, June
Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, February,
Fig Tree Gallery, Invitational, Berkeley, CA, February, March
1998 SOMAR Gallery, CA Society of Printmakers, San Francisco, CA, July
Fetterley Gallery, Relief Print,Juried, Vallejo, CA, May
Gallery 551, California Society of Printmakers,San Francisco, CA, March
San Jose City College Gallery, San Jose, CA, March,
Robert Allen Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, February
1997 Harleen and Allen Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, August 1995, February
Foster City Museum, Foster City, CA,
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Red Vase with Modern Elements
Ochre Vessel
