Ann Lewis

"This piece forces the viewer to change his or her perspective. When standing directly in front of the work as most people do when examining art the text is convoluted. As the viewer moves past the piece at different angles the words suddenly pop off the wall and become legible. This is an exercise in understanding the world in a different context, from a different viewpoint. Sometimes one must change his or her perspective to see something in it's truest state of reality." - gilf!

This RUN comes signed by gilf! with an Original Artwork Letter of Provenance from 1xRUN.

Ann Lewis is a multidisciplinary activist artist using painting, installation, and participatory performance in our public spaces to explore themes related to American identity, power structures, and justice. Her work interrogates power imbalances such as mass incarceration, police brutality, and the desecration of women’s and trans rights. Ann’s data-driven art uses concept-specific materials to reflect facts in these apocryphal times. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin she has shown at the Obama White House, and her mural See Her received an Americans for the Arts 2018 Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review Award. Ann’s art has been acquired by the New York Historical Society Museum and the US Library of Congress.Her work has been discussed in Hyperallergic, Artnet, Interview Magazine, The LA Times, and The Guardian. She has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the US and abroad including shows at Petzel Gallery in New York, Seyhoun Gallery in Tehran, Iran. Her most recent work To Be Human commissioned by Duolingo spans 17,000 sq ft and instigated a dialogue producing a large public art grant supporting artists in Pittsburgh, PA.