Alan Lew

Alan Jordan Lew
Born in Houston, TX 1977
Visual and Auditory artist. Been working with night photography and traditional mixed-media collage for half my life. Stopped night photography when slide film became hard to find. Yet I really cant wait until I can afford a D-SLR. Music composer since 14. Scored a few local films then fell in love with the idea of modernism and the future of classical music. Eclectically abrasive electronic music turns inwex. At the moment I am only composing and working on geometric music theory. Being busy is my life or OCD and finding a level of joy with such things is necessary; not that it is easy. I'm still searching for the simplicity of happiness. One day I would like to visit Vienna which has been a long dream of mine since childhood. I've lived in Austin, Houston, and West Hollywood. I love good cinema, being alone, and Mozart. As of 2021 I have stopped visual art. After 27 years off and on working with tiny pieces of paper, my eyes have had it. Been seeing a neurologist for headaches which kick in doing this type of work. There will probably be a time when I pick it back up, Though with all the psychological changes in the past five years, I have no clue as to what type of style I'll aquire.

I started doing visual media during the last year of high school. During that time I had repeated ART 1, for the fourth time in a school for trouble makers. Even piano students rebel. (We're the worst.) I could never pass ART because I didn't care, or cultured enough with visual history. All I cared about was being a pianist, composer ... cigarettes, friends, playing guitar, and nine inch nails. Late 90's ego were also huge. We liked to mope because it felt cool despite delusion. Anyway, I managed to pass ART 1 believe it or not. Not much of a choice really. Ended up graduating months earlier. By that time however I was entranced by art. Specifically collage, but I was not familiar with it. We actually didn't do collage work at all in school.
It was 1996. Months back before graduation 'something' happened to me. Something major. I will say, something half beautiful. Yet, after this event I began having nightmares, and my mind never felt more clear than it did then. I obsessively cut thin slices of paper, and was afraid of bad luck if my early work wasn't symmetrical.
A thought in the back of my mind came to me. I was hit by a car when I was 13 on the 4th of July. I don't remember any part of it. A few months later I coul...

Visual Broadcast:

2019: last year worked on art. now all obsessions within music composition (2022)

2017: midlife crisis, lost family member

Webster Presbyterian Church The Genesis Series Exhibition September 11 - October 30 2016 Two invitational works for display and discussion.

(Worked on music exclusively 2011-late 2014; changed my art style for a new body of work. 36 pieces.)

Spring Art Studio Cleaning Sale: East End Studio Gallery: May 26, 2012 Memorial Day Weekend.

Winter Juried Exhibition: December 1 - January 5, 2011 Two invitational works and one Honorable Mention.

Alan Jordan Lew - Not so Solo show 2: November 7th 2011 Second self organized solo show. My own chosen body of work. Approximately 100 works at Freeman Memorial Library.

Kemah Boardwalk Art Walk: October 2011 Visual Artist and artist vendor.

Art Outside (Rockdale, TX Art and Music festival, Apache Pass): October 7-9th 2011 Accepted Visual and vendor artist.

Sticky Note Art Exhibition: East End Studio Gallery: August 28th 2011 Participating artist. Made 50 sticky note collages.

Body Image Invitation & Juried Exhibition: August 18 - September 22, 2011 Two invitational works and 3 juried and accepted.

Alan Jordan Lew - Not so Sol...