Installation View: La noche de día (Night by Day)
Courtesy of Fundación La Nave Salinas.
This summer, Fundación La Nave Salinas in Ibiza presents a powerful solo exhibition by American artist Spencer Lewis. Titled La noche de día (Night by Day), the show marks the culmination of four years of planning between Lewis and the foundation’s founder, Lio Malca. Installed within the dramatic setting of a former 1940s salt warehouse overlooking Las Salinas beach, the exhibition features a series of new, monumental site-specific paintings.
Known for his raw, gestural abstraction, Lewis continues his exploration of color, texture, and spatial tension—building upon the legacy of Modernist masters like Hans Hofmann and Willem de Kooning. His layered, emotionally charged surfaces invite viewers into a shifting dialogue between chaos and control. Each brushstroke feels both spontaneous and carefully considered, creating compositions that reward slow, immersive looking.
As Isaac Malca, Director of Fundación La Nave Salinas, notes, this exhibition offers a rare chance to experience Lewis’s work in direct dialogue with the foundation’s soaring industrial architecture and the island’s luminous Mediterranean light. With works also held in major American museum collections, Lewis brings international energy and a deeply personal visual language to this landmark Ibiza exhibition—cementing La Nave’s decade-long legacy of championing bold, visceral contemporary art.
For Lewis, each canvas becomes a physical conversation—balancing chaos and control, movement and materiality. Trained on the works of Hans Hofmann and Willem de Kooning as a child, Lewis’s painterly instincts are both studied and spontaneous. Known for his raw, gestural abstraction and vibrant color palette, Lewis continues his dialogue with the legacies of Abstract Expressionism while forging his own bold visual language.
The show offers a rare opportunity to experience Lewis’s work in immersive scale, engaging directly with the luminous architecture and Mediterranean light unique to this storied Ibiza venue.