Texts

Films and podcast conversations are on the Media page.

Essays and exhibition texts

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2026 Nebelstreif — press release (PDF) Vito Schnabel Gallery
2025 These Wordless Dramas: An Essay on the Art of Spencer Lewis Substack · Barry Schwabsky
2025 Text for Bodies Harper’s · James Frey
2025 Text for Tachisme MASSIMODECARLO · Elisa Schaar
2024 Introduction to Am See Galerie nächst St. Stephan · Florian Steininger
2023 Text for Closeness: Spencer Lewis and Caitlin Lonegan Micki Meng · Michael Ned Holte
2022 Text for Jacques (Pink and purple paintings for my dad) Harper’s · Darla Migan
2022 Text for Bubbles Galerie nächst St. Stephan · Max Maslansky
2022 Black Abstractionists: From Then ’til Now (curatorial essay) Green Family Art Foundation · Dexter Wimberly

Reviews

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2026 Spencer Lewis: Straight, No Chaser Whitehot Magazine · Edward Waisnis
2023 Spencer Lewis “Put a Mess” at MASSIMODECARLO, Milan Mousse
2022 Spencer Lewis “Odds & Sods” at Josh Lilley, London Mousse · Ben Street
2022 Spencer Lewis at Harper’s Wrong Life Review
2022 Art Cities: N. York — Spencer Lewis Dream Idea Machine · Efi Michalarou
2021 Spencer Lewis’s mesmerizing formlessness Two Coats of Paint · Patrick Neal
2014 Exhibitions by Josh Aster and Spencer Lewis at Edward Cella Fabrik

Interviews and conversations

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Press and features

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2025 Spencer Lewis brings monumental paintings to Ibiza’s La Nave Salinas Whitewall · Michael Klug
2025 Lio Malca brings Spencer Lewis to Ibiza Ocula · Tom Seymour
2025 Spencer Lewis brings ‘La Noche de Día’ to Fundación La Nave Salinas Hypebeast · Keith Estiler
2025 Fundación La Nave Salinas opens the summer season with monumental works by Spencer Lewis Artdaily
2024 Juliet 220 Juliet Art Magazine · Emanuele Magri
2024 Refusing Identification, Not Identity Contemporary Art Review LA · Jonathan Griffin
2022 Goodwill Southern California holds first art exhibit as part of Frieze LA Spectrum News 1 · Susan Carpenter
2022 Upcycled: your castoffs become art at the Atwater Village Goodwill LAist · Sharon McNary
2022 Jacques Lewis at Vito Schnabel: Arts Intel Report Air Mail · Jensen Davis
2022 Spencer Lewis’ expressionism fully flowers with new Vito Schnabel Gallery exhibition BlackBook
2022 Better World Fragrance House partners with Goodwill SoCal for pop-up art exhibit Complex · Trace William Cowen
2021 How Epidemic Agency inspires creative collaborations Cultured · Rachel Marlowe
2021 Five Black abstract artists you should know Cultured · Ricardo Mor
2021 Vito Schnabel: art in the Engadin The Aficionados
2021 Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections (18) Hyperallergic · Stephen Maine (ed.)
2015 A group show at Edward Cella’s new location allows painting to be itself Artsy · Maxwell Williams
2014 Abstract painting gets the spotlight at Edward Cella Artsy

Books

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2025 Spencer Lewis: Untitled — monograph with essays by Barry Schwabsky and Kendra Walker and a conversation with Dave 1 Zolo Press · Barry Schwabsky, Kendra Walker, Dave 1