Aycan Lewis is a Turkish-born, self-taught visual artist based in New York City. Her path into art grew organically, beginning with hand-painted clothing and design, then expanding into painting, drawing, digital art and mixed media. Her practice moves between abstraction and the human figure, across both physical and digital processes. Fragmentation has become a recurring visual language in her work. Her recent paintings bring the figure increasingly to the forefront.

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Statement

 

We rarely experience life as a complete picture. We gather pieces; moments, emotions, memories, impressions of one another and somehow build a whole from what we have.

 

My work grows from the space between what is present and what is missing. Fragmented forms move between abstraction and the human figure. The figures themselves are fragments too; individual beings, part of something larger, a whole we can sense but not fully see.

 

I’m drawn to the tension of what resists completion. The mind tries to finish what isn’t finished, to make coherence out of what’s unresolved.

 

These paintings invite that urge to look again, to reassemble, to accept that the image, like the self, is always in motion.