About the Presentation
James Cope (Dallas, TX) and Vardaxoglou Gallery (London, UK) will present a solo presentation with British artist Lewis Brander (b. 1995, London, UK) at Independent.
For the artist’s debut in New York, the presentation includes a group of new paintings made in London over the past two years. Exploring the shifts in natural light in both Northern and Southern Europe, the colour of the sky has become a constant reference in Brander’s paintings since returning to London from Athens, Greece.
In his paintings, Brander references sites of historical significance both to industrial London and also to his own familial history; his ancestors were refugees from Eastern Europe and settled near the area where he now works. Brander combines these histories with an interpretation of the historical movements of English romanticism, post-war American abstraction and the School of London painters. Lewis Brander’s paintings are a device for which light and atmosphere are not only observed and recorded, but a place in which the language and history of painting is played out.
Lewis Brander, Athens, 2019-2023, © Lewis Brander, courtesy Vardaxoglou Gallery, London
