Celeste Lewis, originally a southerner, moved west in the 1980s. Time spent in Arizona, Wyoming, and Utah has given her a deep love and appreciation for the lifestyle, landscape and colors of the mountain west.
“Art is a language that really opened up for me in college. I had always loved art in all its forms but in school a teacher/mentor really threw open the door and invited me into a deeper connection with art that continues to grow and inform all I am and all I do.”
Lewis has managed galleries and art centers and continued to work as an artist along the way. Her current work alternates between paintings and box collages. Her paintings are layered landscapes often hovering between the representational and the abstract and are often multi-media. The box collages are constructed from found objects and assembled materials, each representing its own thought, its own world, most often in a grid with other similar pieces, together creating a dialogue.
“Art is a language that really opened up for me in college. I had always loved art in all its forms but in school a teacher/mentor really threw open the door and invited me into a deeper connection with art that continues to grow and inform all I am and all I do.”
Lewis has managed galleries and art centers and continued to work as an artist along the way. Her current work alternates between paintings and box collages. Her paintings are layered landscapes often hovering between the representational and the abstract and are often multi-media. The box collages are constructed from found objects and assembled materials, each representing its own thought, its own world, most often in a grid with other similar pieces, together creating a dialogue.