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artist: Nathan Mabry



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Tissue II
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Nathan Lewis

Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)

Nathan Lewis has always made figurative and abstract drawings, which are related to anatomical textures and patterns he encountered when working as an ICU nurse. Hence the title of this work, Tissue II , is a spare and elegant work, in which the artist combines hand sculpted paper with embossment and frottage for the first time in his practice. The effect recalls African weaving and skin embellishment, but also reflects the influence of his former job as an intensive-care nurse, seeking to heal the most damaged.

Nathan Mabry

Nathan Lewis

Nathan Lewis’s unfeigned drawings have evolved out of the nine years he worked as a critical care nurse at a Washington, D.C...