About the Artist
“My work speaks to my joys and sorrows and expressing them through art.”
Biography
Lewis Schnellmann is a multi-disciplined artist working in several mediums including painting, sculpture and printmaking. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated with degrees in Fine Arts (MFA) and Mathematics (BA) from the University of Missouri. He was an associate professor of art at Radford College (VA), Missouri Western College (MO), and Century College (MN). He continued post-graduate work at the University of Minnesota where he worked with Malcolm Meyers on printmaking. He also spent several years with Peter Busa as a friend and mentor.
Lewis has work in private and public collections throughout the U.S. and has been in many exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. He moved to Oracle, Arizona in 2002 where he has his studio.
Artist’s Statement
When I go into my studio to paint, I feel like I become a conductor of a symphony of instruments that nature has provided: colors, shades, tints, textures, chords. I merely arrange these into shapes and harmonies that please me. I hope they please you also.
Selected Exhibitions
Shemer Art Center, 2022, Phoenix, AZ Art Space Gallery, 2021, Silver City, N.M RLV (Rancho Linda Vista) Gallery, Printmaking Retrospective, 2020, Oracle, AZ Oracle Center for the Arts, 2018, Oracle, AZ, Invitational Group Show Agua Caliente Park Gallery, 2013, Tucson, AZ DeGrazia "Little Gallery", 2013, Tucson, AZ Art Reach Gallery, 2011, Stillwater, MN Art Reach Gallery, 2011, Stillwater, MN RLV Gallery, 2008, Oracle, AZ Tucson/Pima Joel D. Valdez Main Library, 2007, Oracle, AZ St. Phillips on the Hill Gallery, 2004, Tucson, AZ Tohono Chul Botanical Garden Museum Gallery, 2003, Tucson, AZ Mesquite Grove Gallery, 2003, Tubac, AZ Anderson Center, Artist Residency Award, 2003, Red Wing, MN Primavera Exhibition, 2002, Plymouth, MN Burnsville Society for the Arts, Honorable Mention Award, 2001, Burnsville MN Northwestern Gallery, 1998, St. Paul, MN Lakewood Gallery, Exhibition Catalog, Heads, Faces, and Caricatures, 1994, Lakewood, MN Century College, 1997, 1994, White Bear Lake, MN Musée Ad Zak, Exhibition Catalog, 1993, Paris, France World Trade Center, 1993, St. Paul, MN Wilensky Gallery, 1992, Minneapolis, MN Augsburg College, 1991, 1995, St. Paul, MN Figure Drawings Exhibition Catalog, 1981, Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Friends Gallery Exhibition Catalog, Jury Show, 1980, Minneapolis, MN Sculpture Holy Redeemer Church, Maplewood, MN
