Emmette Lewis

Emmettes' work recognizes art as an unparalleled gateway that channels emotional expression and creative consciousness into a visual language. Primarily, her creative focus regards subjects that obscure reality and question representation by composing diverse visual narratives. Through collecting and recycling organic and synthetic materials, she creates abstract reflections that seek to deconstruct societal archetypes and create a dissociative state of being. These reflections become an intimate representation of how our environments shape our core. This is exhibited through expressionist portraiture and anomalous figures with an ambiguous lens of stylized and structural beauty. Within the juxtaposing form of imagery, the subject of her works asks the audience to question the relationship between the apparent and the hidden; to consider what exists beyond what is seen. She does this in her artistic practice by playing with images that embrace both the familiar and the uncanny.

The foundation of her art explores ideas that look to be devoid of conventional adaptations of beauty, femininity and fragility. Emmette’s paintings fashion identities that are reflective of personal intimacies, relationships, and memories of my community....

Mentorship, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver B.C. 2016

York University, Bachelors of Fine Arts Honors, Toronto, ON. 2023

OCAD University, Interdisciplinary Masters in Art’s, Media and Design, Toronto. ON. 2024 - present

Solo Exhibitions
Textile Rabbits, Show Gallery, 2023
Anatomy Interrupted, Gallery 1313, 2021
Holistic Beauty, Gallery 1313, 2020

Selected Group Shows
Fine Art Show, Elaine Fleck Gallery, ON, 2024
Group Show, Elaine Fleck Gallery, ON, 2024
Unity in Diversity, Museum of Dufferin, ON, 2024
Forms, Faces & Spaces,Alton Mills Art Centre, ON, 2024.
New Vista Juried Show, Etobicoke Civic Art Gallery, ON, 2024
Fine Lines, Monat Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2023
Fine Art Exhibit, Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2023
Monat Gallery Group Show, Monat Gallery. Madrid, Spain, 2023
Luxembourg Art Fair 2023, Luxexpo The Box, ON, 2023