New on 20x200: Sweethearts by Jonathan Lewis
8”x8” ($20) | 11”x11” ($50) | 16”x16” ($200)
In the newsletter, Sara writes:
These lines, neatly, but secretly (how does he do it?) assembled into solid and stoic, but chaotically bright forms, are taken from an unlikely source—crassly-colored candy wrappers. Jonathan himself does a swell job of explaining the whys, if not the hows, so I’ll let his statement do the talking:
Sweethearts, and the series to which it belongs, See Candy, take their inspiration from the visual cacophony emanating from the average candy section of the average supermarket. My own reaction is to vacillate between an almost childlike wonder at the sheer vibrancy of all the brightly coloured packaging, drinking in the sensory overload, and a more grown-up mode of cynical detachment, a learned defense against our media-saturated environment.
