River Lewis Contemporary Okanagan Artists
Multi-disciplinary emerging artist working in Okanagan North and Central.
About Me
Okanagan Artists, River Lewis
Working from Vernon BC and Kelowna BC, River Lewis is a contemporary multi-disciplinary artist creating in fine arts and media arts. Often his work is a hybrid of several mediums or methods, for example photography and conceptual poetry.
Okanagan Artists in the Community
Lewis feels that the moniker 'Okanagan Artist' requires a serious reflection or re-visitation of the geographical region and its history. One current art project Lewis is working on is the appropriation of dominant culture symbols and icons to re-write local history in the form of a creation story.
http://www.riverlewis.com/okanagan-artist/
The project personifies inanimate objects, giving them life and serving as a metaphor for the disenfranchised of any background and ancestry. Lewis is also writing an essay in support of the benefits of contemporary art for increasing the vibrancy of community.