STATEMENT

My work begins with the idea that we are held together by invisible threads connecting us to one another and to the environments through which we move. These threads form fragile webs that shape our lives in ways we rarely notice—resilient one moment, unraveling the next.

I’m less interested in depicting a scene than in creating the feeling of living inside interconnected systems. In the studio, I work with acrylic paint, building layers, and scraping them back. Rough edges, irregular forms, lines and drips move in and out of alignment. Fragments of pattern, sometimes including textiles, suggest something lived—stitched, worn, repaired. I’m drawn to moments when forms shift, collide or settle into balance.

For me, painting is a way of paying attention—to the memories we carry, the connections we rely on, and the moments when things fall apart and come back together. I want my work to invite viewers to recognize the unseen connections that bind us to one another and to environments that support our existence, and to understand how even the smallest actions have an impact.

The textural geometric shapes, patterns, and layers in my work are a reminder that all our actions — big and small — leave imprints on the world.

ALEXIA LEWNES

Alexia Lewnes is an abstract painter shaped by decades of witnessing how people navigate struggle, change, and community.

Before turning to art, Alexia worked as a documentary filmmaker, journalist and photographer in New York City and Cairo, Egypt and later with UNICEF, reporting across Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa. For over 20 years, she covered poverty, displacement, and the everyday realities of women and children in unstable conditions.

Those experiences inform her art, which explores how identity and resilience emerge from hardship, how environment leaves its mark, and how collective stories endure.

Living abroad deepened Alexia’s appreciation for textiles as carriers of cultural memory—objects that communicate identity and shared history. This understanding shapes her visual language; even when not using fabric directly, layered forms, scraped surfaces, and fragments of pattern echo the textures and histories held by cloth.

At its core, her work examines connection: how people remain tied to one another and to the environments that sustain them. Alexia is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has been included in juried group exhibitions in the United States.

Selected recent group exhibits

2026, 4th Annual Taos Abstract Artist Collective Exhibition (Spring Show), Stables Gallery at the Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM

  • 2025, All About Women 2025, Marin Society of Artists, online, CA

  • 2025, Woman in Art, Las Lagunas Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

  • 2024-2025, Will You Hold This Against Me, Space Untitled, Wilton Manors, FL

  • 2024, Tranquil and Thankful, KBM Art Gallery, online exhibit, Riverside, CA

  • 2024, The Essence of a Woman, MVA Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA