Dale Lewis
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Biography
Dale Lewis’ paintings depict the artist’s personal experiences, painted from memory. Reflecting on the realities of contemporary urban life, he focuses on subjects drawn from his immediate surroundings: social immobility, consumerist excess, binge drinking culture, gang violence, bad diet, class divides, family life and 9-5 jobs. Lewis’ energetic yet meticulously detailed paintings inherit the scale, compositional and narrative structures of canonical art historical painting – renaissance and religious scenes in particular – with devices of metamorphosis, transcendence, spirituality and sexuality serving as mainstays.
Dale Lewis (b. 1980) completed a BA in Fine Art at London Guildhall in 2002, an MFA at Brighton in 2006 and graduated from the Turps Studio Programme in 2015. Recent solo exhibitions include No Place Like Home, Block 336, London, UK (2021); The Great Day, Edel Assanti, London, UK (2020); Free Range, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2019) and Fat, Sugar, Salt, Edel Assanti, London, UK (2018). Recent group exhibitions include The Day I Saw You, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Querétaro MACQ, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico (2023) and Friends and Friends of Friends, Schlossmuseum, Linz, Austria (2020). In 2021 Lewis’ permanent 8 metre high mural was unveiled at Picturehouse’s newest central London cinema. Lewis was the recipient of the 2016 Jerwood Painting Fellowship. His work is in international collections including The Arsenal, Montreal, Canada; By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China; David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK; Fundacion AMMA, Mexico; Government Art Collection, London, UK; Hort Foundation, New York, USA and Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK. Dale Lewis lives and works in London.
Bibliography
Works
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The Invisible Man, 2024
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Dreamland, 2022
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Maypole, 2021
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No Place Like Home, 2021
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Menu Del Dia, 2021
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Migration, 2021
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Black Jack, 2020
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Basket Case, 2020
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Family Album: The Lilley Pad [plate 1], 2019
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Family Album: Family Fortunes [plate 3], 2019
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Regent's Canal, 2017
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Acid Man's Funeral, 2015
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Deep Fat Fryer, 2015
Media
Dale Lewis in conversation with Eliel Jones.
Home Fires 14: Dale Lewis speaks with Jane Hayes Greenwood, director of Block336 about his commission for the gallery.
Home Fires 10: Dale Lewis discusses his painting 'Black Jack', 2020, with writer Daniel Culpan.
Home Fires 03: Dale Lewis speaks with Edel Assanti's artistic director Jeremy Epstein about his 35 metre panoramic project 'The Great Day', 2020.
Dale Lewis discusses his mural commission for Picturehouse, Finsbury Park.
Dale Lewis and writer Daniel Culpan walkthrough his epic work 'The Great Day', 2020.
Dale Lewis in conversation with Sacha Craddock.
Exhibitions
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Dale Lewis: The Great Day
15 July - 16 October 2020Edel Assanti is pleased to announce that the gallery will be reopening with Dale Lewis’ third exhibition at Edel Assanti: The Great Day. We are delighted to be reopening, and...Read more -
Dale Lewis: Fat, Sugar, Salt
19 January - 10 March 2018Private View | Thursday 18 January 2018, 6-8pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present Fat, Sugar, Salt, Dale Lewis’ second solo exhibition with the gallery. Dale Lewis’ paintings depict the...Read more -
Dale Lewis
15 March - 23 April 2016Private View | Tuesday 15 March, 6-8PM Edel Assanti is pleased to present an exhibition of work by artist Dale Lewis. Lewis’ paintings are made from memory, assembling real life...Read more
Art Fairs
News
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Marcin Dudek on BBC Radio 3
'Between the Ears: And the Crowd Roars' by Mark Burman 24 September 202324 September 2023 'Where's your famous atmosphere?!' At the heart of any football match is the crowd. Without it, the beautiful game is meaningless. The...Read more -
Dale Lewis in The Art Newspaper
'Commemorating King Charles III's coronation: nine artists commissioned by UK government to create works' by Gareth Harris 15 May 202315 May 2023 One of the chosen artists, Cornelia Parker, describes her encounters with anti-monarchy protestors. The UK Government Art Collection (GAC) has commissioned nine...Read more -
Dale Lewis at Museo Leonora Carrington - Centro de las Artes San Luis Potosi
'The Day I Saw You: Portraits from the Fundacion AMMA Collection' 8 December 20228 December 2022 Dale Lewis is featured in the group show The Day I Saw You: Portraits from the Fundacion AMMA Collection at Museo Leonora...Read more -
Dale Lewis at Schlossmuseum
Group exhibition 'Friends, and Friends of Friends' from 30 September 2020 to 06 January 2021 29 September 202029 September 2020 Two works by Dale Lewis are featured in the group exhibition Friends, and Friends of Friends: Artistic communities in the age of...Read more -
Edel Assanti in Frieze Viewing Room
24 September 202024 September 2020 The gallery will participate in Frieze London's online viewing room; featuring new work by Noémie Goudal, Dale Lewis and Oren Pinhassi. Noémie...Read more -
Dale Lewis | The Great Day
24 September 202024 September 2020 Edel Assanti is pleased to present a short documentary film on the subject of Dale Lewis' monumental painting The Great Day. The...Read more -
Dale Lewis in Transmission Art
Group exhibition 'Exhibition II' 11 September 202011 September 2020 Dale Lewis will be feautured in the online group show 'Exhibition II' at Transmission, an online artists gallery and studio. Dale Lewis,...Read more -
Dale Lewis in The Art Newspaper
'Vortic Collect: A promising virtual reality tool for galleries and a welcome getaway for art collectors' by The Art Newspaper's XR Panel 9 September 202009 September 2020 Vortic Collect is an XR app for iPhone and iPad that allows users to browse exhibitions from participating galleries in virtual reality...Read more -
Dale Lewis in Apollo Magazine
'Around the galleries in London' by Gabrielle Schwarz 9 July 202009 July 2020 Summer is not usually an auspicious time for visiting galleries. Many are closed altogether – taking the opportunity to reorganise stock, repaint...Read more -
Dale Lewis in the Financial Times
'London lockdown paintings are raucous and lyrical' by Jackie Wullschläger 8 July 202008 July 2020 New works by Dale Lewis, Celia Paul and others explore loneliness and connection as the capital’s commercial galleries reopen. Dale Lewis, ...Read more -
Dale Lewis in Elephant Magazine
'Ridiculous! Eighteen Artists who are Not Afraid to Look Stupid' by Paul Carey-Kent 13 January 202013 January 2020 For Ridiculous!, writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent presents an exhibition and performance programme of some eighteen artists who are not afraid to...Read more -
Dale Lewis in Frieze
'‘Fat, Sugar, Salt': Dale Lewis's Carnival of Brexit Britain' by Daniel Culpan 9 March 201809 March 2018 Dale Lewis’s ‘Fat, Sugar, Salt’ – his second solo show at Edel Assanti – depicts life in Brexit Britain as a distorted...Read more -
Dale Lewis in Elephant Magazine
'Dale Lewis: Pass the Salt' 1 March 201801 March 2018 Shocking, raw, tender and fearlessly human; Dale Lewis talks us through four of his new paintings from Fat, Sugar, Salt at Edel...Read more -
Dale Lewis in Apollo
'The joys of junk food' by Tim Smith-Laing 19 February 201819 February 2018 ‘Fat, Sugar, Salt’: it is an evocative little list. Put the ingredients together and you have the core attractions of the foods...Read more -
Dale Lewis in Artlyst
'Dale Lewis And Emma Cousin The Painterly Post Digital Vernacular' by Paul Carey-Kent 12 February 201812 Febraury 2018 The story of painting has become, in large part, the story of its response to other media, especially photography. That used to...Read more -
Dale Lewis in the Financial Times
'Critics' Choice: Dale Lewis, Fat, Sugar, Salt' 1 February 201801 February 2018 In “Family Fortunes” the artist is served up for Christmas dinner while the goose and pork stand in as guests. In “Club...Read more -
Dale Lewis in Them
'7 Queer Artists Who Are Changing the Game in 2018' by Zachary Small 31 January 201831 January 2018 From veterans to up-and-comers, here are the artists who are shaping our queer future. Dale Lewis, Special K, 2017, oil, acrylic and...Read more -
Dale Lewis in Artforum
'Critics' Pick: Dale Lewis 'Fat, Sugar, Salt'' by Zachary H. Small 26 January 201826 January 2018 The kaleidoscopic horrors that Dale Lewis summons from his East London neighborhood provide an unsettling image of post-Brexit life. While their frantic...Read more -
Dale Lewis interview in It's Nice That
'"I like the idea of giving up on trying to do the right thing”: inside the chaotic world of artist Dale Lewis' by Bryony Stone 24 January 201824 January 2018 Fat, Sugar and Salt are three addictive substances that many of us have spent the past 22 days pretending to avoid, but...Read more -
Dale Lewis at Saatchi Gallery
Group exhibition 'Iconoclasts: Art Out of the Mainstream' at Saatchi Gallery 23 September 201723 September 2017 Five paintings by Dale Lewis are currently on view at the Saatchi Gallery in Iconoclasts: Art Out of the Mainstream. The exhibition...Read more -
Dale Lewis in Elephant Magazine
'Expo Chicago: Gender' by Emily Steer 16 September 201716 September 2017 In Issue 31 , we spoke to artists who are redefining and blurring the binary understanding of gender for a twenty-first-century audience....Read more -
Dale Lewis in Judd Tully blog
'Expo Chicago Shows Gathering Strength' by Judd Tully 15 September 201715 September 2017 Buoyed by first-time power hitting entrants Gagosian, Gmurzynska and Levy Gorvy, the sixth iteration of the International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern...Read more -
Dale Lewis in The Financial Times
'Critics' Choice: Jerwood Painting Fellowships' by Jackie Wullschläger 26 July 201626 June 2016 Dale Lewis worked at Science Ltd producing pieces designed by Damien Hirst, and then as assistant to fantastical hyperrealist painter Raqib Shaw....Read more -
Dale Lewis in This Is Tomorrow
'Jerwood Painting Fellowships 2016' by Cassie Davies 31 May 201631 May 2016 The third edition of the Jerwood Painting Fellowships 2016 brings together three distinctive painters in their early professional career. The Fellowships, launched...Read more -
Dale Lewis in Artsy
'Critics' Choice: The 12 Young Painters You Need to Know at NADA New York' by Molly Gottschalk 6 May 201606 May 2016 The fifth edition of NADA New York opened yesterday, and as ever, it was teeming with collectors and artists eager to set...Read more -
Dale Lewis in The New York Times
'NADA Art Fair Offers the Wacky and the Political, Plus Basketball' by Ken Johnson 5 May 201605 May 2016 If you’re deciding which art fairs to attend this weekend, consider this. In addition to its assembly of 105 dealers of art...Read more
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