Amani Lewis (b. 1994) is a Miami and Baltimore-based artist whose dynamic, mixed-media paintings foreground their subject’s humanity, agency, and inner resilience. Amani’s creative process incorporates photography, digital collage, screen printing, and luminous textures into kaleidoscopic, large-scale portraits.
Amani Lewis: Reimagining Care is a new series of magnificent, capacious works on paper and an expansive wall installation. During the multiple pandemics, Amani documented their family through video and audio recordings, and mined various family photo albums as source material. They attentively combine storytelling, the spiritual, and family imagery into new visual forms that honor and celebrate the multiplicity and complexities of Black life. Using portraiture as a mode to create a deeper connection to their familial heritage. Amani’s work reveals the beauty, love, and abundance of Blackness.
Amani’s artistic practice is based on a commitment to human well-being, healing, and care which is evident in the sublime power and tenderness of their work.
Amani Lewis: Reimagining Care is organized by Kilolo Luckett, executive director and chief curator; exhibition installation was handled with care by Camila Centeno Bonnet, exhibition and digital content manager, and Marco Femiani, gallery and studio manager.
