Exhibition Dates: September 3 – 28, 2024

Opening Reception: Thurs, September 5, 2024, 5PM-8PM

Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat 11AM-6PM

Mark Lewis’s recent graphite collages explore city streets, specifically Tulsa’s city streets. These perceptually based graphite collages are constructed in a tactile way on site with an accumulation of material and daily experiences.

The street fiction works explore a mixture of daily life and fictional protests. The larger street fiction pieces are mixed media utilizing a tactile palette of clothing, canvas, acrylic paint, fabric, afghan fragments, and found objects.

“I love the democratic spaces we live in and I enjoy exploring geometry, light and the human condition through these street scenes.”  —Mark Lewis

Bowery Gallery was founded in 1969 by a group of New York artists resisting the commercialization of the art world. Since then, the Gallery, with some 30-odd members, has shown painters and sculptors, abstract and figurative, who share a consciousness of tradition and a belief in the formal power of art. Bowery artists have shown in group and solo shows in galleries and museums nationwide; Bowery exhibitions have been praised in the pages of The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, Modern Painters, The New Republic, The New Criterion, and on artcritical.com, among other publications.