The Art Collective presents Lance Hewison – Vessels

Lance HewisonVessels
9-14 July, 2013

Lance Hewison, Midnight, Oil on canvas, 76 x 76cm
Portrait painter from San Francisco, Lance Hewison will be hosting ‘an evening with Lance’ to launch his new body of work and exhibition ‘Vessels’ in Clerkenwell, London on the evening of July 10th.* details of times and location below
“In making Vessels I thought a lot about my perception of the human form as a solid container. I wondered if precise boundaries truly exist, like the tidy borders drawn around various countries on a map. Or, if on an unseen level, the body and its surroundings have no clear starting or stopping point. Science tell us an atom is comprised almost entirely of empty space. In this sense, perhaps no one or no thing is as fixed as we might think.
The word vessel has multiple meanings. It refers to vases or urns built to contain various substances, ships that sail across the oceans, and vascular tubes used by blood cells to traverse the body.
Technologically speaking, the internet and cellular phones are vessels for communication. The word is also used metaphorically. Like when we say we are vessels for creativity, for instance.
In “Vessels”, elliptical blips of paint merge and dissolve into brilliant fields of colour to form figures and objects. Hard contour lines have been eliminated. There is a nod to ancient Greek art, and its lust to discover ideal beauty within the human form.The male figures I’ve depicted appear caught off guard in states of restless energy. Through the medium of paint the container of flesh opens ever so slightly, and allows the form to move momentarily beyond its physical constraints”
For details on location and attending the exhibition please visit

Venue: Frameless, 20 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DP
Opening times: 9th-14th July 11am-7pm
Private view evening event with Lance, RSVP only Wed 10th July starts at 6pm.
Preview: 8th July 5pm-6.30pm




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