On Valentines

Known for his abstract painting, Spencer Lewis will debut large scale sculpture in Canada’s project space. Cast in bronze, the sculptures offer a wide variety of surfaces and materials. Some parts are painted while others are polished to high shine. He adds post-it notes, furniture, ceramics and constructed bits that are tacked onto and fall off of these massive orchestrations.

The largest of these works is taller than a man and heavier than a refrigerator with a busted up desk inserted into it. While unwieldy in mass, the happenstance freefall composition delivers them towards intimacy. Like his paintings, the sculptures are a kind of homespun rhapsody. They seem to emanate from below, burst up through the mantle like an overflowing storage locker. They are vulcanized.

In this show the sculpture paired with the paintings shows a more complete rendering of this artist’s complicated and very personal vision.

From the press release, CANADA, New York, 2021.