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Aug 18, 2023 · A strange, animal-like being appears in each of emerging artist Ronan Day-Lewis’s haunting, mystical oil pastel paintings. He calls this entity only “the creature.”
Distorting familiar, iconic settings such as the American Museum of Natural History and vast expanses of California desert, Day-Lewis’ paintings gesture toward a special Americana sublime.”
In new works, this enigmatic personal mythology is embedded in darkly cinematic visions stemming from a fascination with the intricate dioramas of New York's Natural History Museum, which Day-Lewis frequented as a child.
Apr 20, 2023 · Among the artists’ exhibited at Galleri Urbane’s Booth B6 at Dallas Art Fair, Ronan Day-Lewis is an emerging standout. The son of Daniel Day-Lewis and filmmaker and novelist Rebecca Miller, he is a multimedia artist and filmmaker based in New York City.
Day-Lewis suspects that the marks are an obsessive manifestation of his repeated examinations of his childhood memories and emotions. In the work that he makes (primarily paintings and film), he explores the way that he mythologizes his past, creating art that reflects the passage of time.
Ronan Day-Lewis. THE FAMILIAR (IF I REACHED OUT MY HAND WOULD YOU COME TO ME?) 2023. oil pastel on canvas. 24 x 48 inches. My creatures are sort of emotional x-rays… – Ronan Day-Lewis. Rendered in oil pastel on raw canvas, Ronan Day-Lewis’ works are often populated by strange four-legged creatures.
Ronan Day-Lewis is a painter and award winning filmmaker. Graduating from Yale University with a BA in fine art in May 2020, he directed a trilogy of videos for a new Philip Glass album the same year.
