Untitled, 2020-2021
Oil, enamel and acrylic on jute
94 x 68 inches (238.8 x 172.7 cm)
© Spencer Lewis; Photo by Ruben Diaz; Courtesy the artist and Vito Schnabel Gallery
Multi-media painter splashes large canvas in small new space
It’s impossible for art critics – at least for badly educated, unimaginative art critics – to view large format drip-based chaos paintings and not compare them to Jackson Pollock. But that type of facile Morley Safer-style “any monkey could make a painting like this” reaction instantly evaporates when confronted by the power of an inspired abstract artist.
Spencer Lewis, a young 40-something artist currently on display at Harper’s Gallery, is just such an artist.