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NORMA LEWIS
Norma Lewis is both a sculptor and painter. She was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1925 and moved to Texas as a young person. After college she studied at the famous Art Student’s League in New York City under Yasuo Kuniyoshi, William Zorach and Julian Levy.
She moved to St. Louis where she took further training at Washington University and Fontbonne College. Early recognition came with various group shows including St. Louis Art Museum and one-person shows at the Petite Pigalle Gallery and Puccio West Gallery. After this initial recognition, she worked as an interior designer for the Borg Warner Corporation, later starting her own designing firm.
She then exhibited in groups and one-person shows, becoming an active member of the art section of the St. Louis Artist’s Guild and served on the board of the Academy of Professional Artists in that city. During that time, she was commissioned to create two wall murals, one for the Mahlon Rubin associates in Clayton, Missouri and the Creve Coeur Industrial Park in Creve Coeur, Missouri.
In 1981, Norma and her husband moved to the Central Coast of California. She has had several one-person shows combining both sculpture and painting. She works primarily in bronze, but also incorporates some stone and aluminum into her work, including diminutive and large outdoor sculptures. Her sculptures and paintings are in museums and private collections worldwide.
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Artist’s Statement
I do not believe in intellectualizing my art because I am not sure myself where it comes from. To help viewers in their search for understanding, I would say these works are remembered natural forms and designs in nature that I have observed and memorized. They reform themselves and emerge as you see them now. I am not challenged to reproduce nature, but rather to speak to that overall relationship of one form to another and the interdependency of all things into a harmonious whole.
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