Spencer Lewis (b. 1979, Hartford, Connecticut) lives and works in Los Angeles. Known for his gestural paintings on cardboard and jute, Lewis creates densely layered compositions that combine vivid color, sweeping marks, smears of paint, and expressive brushwork. His paintings balance spontaneity with structure, revealing a rigorous interest in pictorial organization and image-making beneath their seemingly chaotic surfaces. Built through successive layers of accumulation, concealment, and revision, Lewis’s works evoke narratives that hover on the edge of legibility, inviting viewers to navigate traces of gesture, memory, and history embedded within the composition. Lewis’s work is held in the permanent collections of the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.