Uptown Gallery - Michael H. Lewis Biography

State University College, New Paltz, NY, B.S. in Art Education, 1963
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, M.A. in Fine Arts
(painting), 1964
State University College, New Paltz, NY, M.F.A. in painting, 1975

A C A D E M I C A P P O I N T M E N T S

1966–1969 Instructor, Art Dept., University of Maine
1969–1972 Assistant Professor, Art Dept., University of Maine
1972–1977 Associate Professor, Art Dept., University of Maine
1975–1981 Chairperson, Art Dept., University of Maine
1977– Professor, Art Dept. University of Maine
1981–1983 Acting Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences,
University of Maine
1987–1993 Chairperson, Art Dept., University of Maine

C O L L E C T I O N S (partial listing)

Museums

University of Missouri St. Louis (permanent collection), St. Louis, MO, 1997
University of Southern Maine Art Gallery (permanent collection), Gorham, ME, 1997
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 1979-1995
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, 1995, 1997
Colby College, Miller Library, Waterville, ME, 6 paintings 1997
University of Maine, Museum of Art, Orono, ME, 1992
Albertina Museum, Vienna Austria, 1988
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, 1987, 1997
(from bequest of Elizabeth Noyce collection)
University of Maine, Augusta, ME, 1986

Corporations
Standish, Ayer, and Wood, Boston, MA, 1995
London Fog Corp., Eldersburg, MD, 1993
Merck and Co., New Jersey, 1993
Central Maine Power Corp., Augusta, ME, 1990
Maine Cataract and Eye Inc., Westbrook ME, 1990
People's Heritage Bank, Portland, ME, 2 paintings, 1989
Columbia Pictures Entertainment Corp., New York City, 1988
General Foods Corp., White Plains, NY, 1987
Union Mutual Life Insurance Co., Portland, ME, 1986
Wellington/Thorndike, Doran, Paine and Lewis, Inc., Boston, MA, 1979

E X H I B I T I O N S (partial listing)

One Person Shows

Uptown Gallery, NYC, Mystery of the Changing Seasons, May 2003
Gallery 357 Main, Rockland, Maine, July 2001
Husson College Art Gallery, Bangor, Maine, November-December 2000
Uptown Gallery, NYC, Spirit of the Seasons: Maine Landscapes, May, 2000
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville ME, Spirit of Winter; Jan 23 – Feb. 27, 2000
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore MD, Recent Maine Landscapes, Oct1 – Nov28, 1998
Uptown Gallery,NYC, Entrance Into Mystery: The Maine Landscape, Oct. 1997
Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, Place By the River, Sept 5 – Oct 5, 1996
Uptown Gallery, NYC, Celebration of Light: The Maine Landscape, May 1995
University of Maine Museum of Art, Magic is Alive, Jan–Feb '95
New England Foundation for the Arts, Cambridge, MA, April 1994
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Jan. 6–Feb. 26, 1994
Uptown Gallery, NYC, Rainbows and Lightning, May 1993
Congress Square Gallery, Portland, ME, Mysteries: Orono, Maine, May 1992
Winfisky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA, Paintings: 1980–1990, September, 1991
Uptown Gallery, NYC, Maine Inspirations, May 1991
Congress Square Gallery, Portland, ME, New Work, April 1990
University of Maine Museum of Art, Orono, ME, January 1990 (reviewed in Art in America)
Uptown Gallery, NYC, Maine Landscapes and Seascapes, Oct 1988
Congress Square Gallery, Portland, Maine, New Work, Oct 1987
Van Buren/Brazelton/Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA, Paintings; April 1986

Group Shows
Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME, Landscapes of the Soul, Two-person show with Vincent Hartgen, November 2002
Gallery 357 Main, Rockland, ME, Group Show; May – June 2002
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Water's Edge, May 2 – June 29, 2002
Aucucisco Gallery, Portland, Maine, Group exhibition, July 2001
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, The Outdoors, February 1 – March 31, 2001
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, New Acquisitions 2001, Jan – March 2002
Vose Gallery, Boston, MA, Small Gems, December 2000
Northern Ireland Heritage Center, Bangor, Northern Ireland, Bangor to Bangor, July – Sept 2000
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, New Millenium, July 6 – Sept 30, 2000
Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME, MCA Exhibition and Auction, July 25 – August 6,2000
Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME, The Maine Landscape:12 Painters, May 2000
Lewiston-Auburn College, Lewiston, ME, L/A Arts Exhibition and Auction, March 24 – May 5, 2000
Uptown Gallery, NYC, Gallery Artists, March 2000
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, The Play of Light on Flowing Water; March 2–April 29, 2000
Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Baltimore, MD, Art '99 Benefit Exhibition; Nov.'99
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Artist's Travels; Nov.4–Dec 30, 1999
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, Contemporary Prints; July–August 1999
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, A Place in the Sun, group exhibition, June 3–August 28, 1999
Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME, MCA Exhibition and Auction, July 20–August 1, 1999
Lewiston-Auburn College, Lewiston, ME, L/A Arts Exhibition and Auction, March 25–May 7, 1999
Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME, The Quiet Landscape, 4 person show, March 4–April 3, 1999
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, The Forest, 5 person show, Feb.4–March 27, 1999
Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME, Maine Landscapes: Two Views, two-person show, December 1998
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, Biennial 1998, 2 paintings, Jurors: Will Barnet, Rachel Rosenfield-Lafo, Bridget Moore, Nov. 5–Jan 3, 1999
Gallery 357 Main, Rockland, Maine, Radiant Passage, two-person show, July '98
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Painterly Bravura, July–August '98
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Vistas, March 6–April 26, 1997
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, Recent Acquisitions Exhibition, Jan.–Feb. 1997
Starr Gallery, Newton, MA, Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem; Contemporary Visions,Sept. 8–Nov. 3, 1996
Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American Art web site, Washington D.C., and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) internet sites, NEA Permanent Archive of work of fellowship recipients, 10 paintings reproduced from New England Foundation for the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, beginning Fall 1996
J.S. Ames Fine Art, Belfast, ME, New Paintings, two person show, August 1995
Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME, Oceans of Oceans, July–August 1994
Regency Gallery, San Diego, CA, April–May 1994
UMF Art Gallery, University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, ME, Ideas of Nature, October, 1993
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Collecting for Harvard; Work Acquired Through The Generosity of Melvin R. Seiden, July 3–August 15, 1993
Levinson/Kane Gallery, Boston, MA, three person show, Contemporary Classicism, November–December 1992
University Gallery, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY., Alumni Art '92, September 1992
Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME, On The Edge:40 Years of Maine Painting, August–September 1992(guest curator; Theodore Wolff, Art Critic, NYC)
Levinson/Kane Gallery, Boston, MA, The Dog Show, July–August 1992
Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Portland, ME, To Support, To Acknowledge, to Promote, September 1991
American Center, Sapporo, Japan, three person show, True North, June–July 1991 (traveled to American Center, Nagoya, Japan, Dec '91–Jan '92)
Mills Gallery, Boston Center For The Arts, Boston, MA, National Endowment For the Arts/New England Foundation For the Arts Fellowship Recipients, February 1991
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Mainly Maine, July 1989
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, New Acquisitions, July–August 1988
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Tribute To Konrad Oberhuber, May–June 1987
Payson Gallery, Westbrook College, Portland, ME, Art Works: Corporate and Business Collections in Maine, Jan–March 1987
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, Saints and Sinners: Contemporary Responses To Religion, Nov 1986–Jan 1987

C O M M I S S I O N S

Doubleday Publishing Co.; painting used as cover for the book "The Mountain of Silence" by Kyriacos Markides; September 2001
Colby College, Waterville, Maine; Miller Library; six landscape paintings commissioned for entrance way-lounge (Library Street/northend); August '97

B I B L I O G R A P H Y (partial listing)

Sunday Portland Press Herald, What's New at the PMA, page 1E, Jan 6, 2002
Bangor Daily News, Artist Explores Winter in Orono in Colby Show by Alicia Anstead; pages C1,C2; January 27, 2000
Bangor Daily News, Art Seen: Landscape Exhibit a Study in Contrast, by Jenna Russell, page C1, December 10, 1998
Down East Magazine, painting Clearing reproduced, page T11, September 1998
Bangor Daily News, Capturing the dramas of the air, Lewis works capture majesty of nature, by Jenna Russell, January 13, 1998, pages C1 & C2
Waterville Sentinel, Six landscape paintings installed at Colby, December 14, 1997, page E7
Maine Sunday Telegram, A Community Gift: L/A Arts is Where the Auction Is, by Philip Isaacson, March 30, 1997
Downeast Magazine, Betting on Bangor, (photo and profile), pg.57, January 1996
Bangor Daily News; Maine Professor Continues Artistic Evolution by Alicia Anstead; February 9, 1995, pgs. C1 & C4
Boston Globe, Galleries, by Nancy Stapen (review of "ContemporaryClassicism" exhibition), December 3, 1992, pg. 73
Poughkeepsie Journal, Alumni Art Graces the SUNY Gallery, by Florence Schetzel, Sunday, August 30, 1992
Yoga Journal, Painting Ascension reproduced, July/August 1992, pg.144
Maine Sunday Telegram, Portland, ME, A Painter Colors His World and Ours, and Makes It Soft, by Philip Issacson, Sunday, May 10, 1992, pg. 6E
Art in America, Michael H. Lewis at the University of Maine Museum of Art, (review) by Carl Little, September 1990, pg. 203
Art New England, Metamorphosis, Four Artists Reflect Maine's New Aesthetic, by Carl Little, July–August 1990
Bangor Daily News, An Art Afire, by Alicia Anstead, February 1, 1990
Artspeak, NYC, The Unearthly Landscapes of Michael H. Lewis, by Martin Parsons, October 1, 1988
The Cyprus Weekly, Nicosia, Cyprus, Eros and Psyche, June 5–11 1987, Pg. 25
Art New England, Saints and Sinners, DeCordova Museum, by Alicia Faxon, March 1987

G R A N T S

New England Foundation for the Arts (in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts), drawing fellowship, $5000, 1990–1991

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	Michael H. Lewis	B I O G R A P H Y Born - Brooklyn, NY 1941 E D U C A T I O N State University College, New Paltz, NY, B.S. in Art Education, 1963 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, M.A. in Fine Arts (painting), 1964 State University College, New Paltz, NY, M.F.A. in painting, 1975 A C A D E M I C A P P O I N T M E N T S 1966–1969 Instructor, Art Dept., University of Maine 1969–1972 Assistant Professor, Art Dept., University of Maine 1972–1977 Associate Professor, Art Dept., University of Maine 1975–1981 Chairperson, Art Dept., University of Maine 1977– Professor, Art Dept. University of Maine 1981–1983 Acting Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Maine 1987–1993 Chairperson, Art Dept., University of Maine C O L L E C T I O N S (partial listing) Museums University of Missouri St. Louis (permanent collection), St. Louis, MO, 1997 University of Southern Maine Art Gallery (permanent collection), Gorham, ME, 1997 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 1979-1995 Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, 1995, 1997 Colby College, Miller Library, Waterville, ME, 6 paintings 1997 University of Maine, Museum of Art, Orono, ME, 1992 Albertina Museum, Vienna Austria, 1988 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, 1987, 1997 (from bequest of Elizabeth Noyce collection) University of Maine, Augusta, ME, 1986 Corporations Standish, Ayer, and Wood, Boston, MA, 1995 London Fog Corp., Eldersburg, MD, 1993 Merck and Co., New Jersey, 1993 Central Maine Power Corp., Augusta, ME, 1990 Maine Cataract and Eye Inc., Westbrook ME, 1990 People's Heritage Bank, Portland, ME, 2 paintings, 1989 Columbia Pictures Entertainment Corp., New York City, 1988 General Foods Corp., White Plains, NY, 1987 Union Mutual Life Insurance Co., Portland, ME, 1986 Wellington/Thorndike, Doran, Paine and Lewis, Inc., Boston, MA, 1979 E X H I B I T I O N S (partial listing) One Person Shows Uptown Gallery, NYC, Mystery of the Changing Seasons, May 2003 Gallery 357 Main, Rockland, Maine, July 2001 Husson College Art Gallery, Bangor, Maine, November-December 2000 Uptown Gallery, NYC, Spirit of the Seasons: Maine Landscapes, May, 2000 Colby Museum of Art, Waterville ME, Spirit of Winter; Jan 23 – Feb. 27, 2000 Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore MD, Recent Maine Landscapes, Oct1 – Nov28, 1998 Uptown Gallery,NYC, Entrance Into Mystery: The Maine Landscape, Oct. 1997 Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, Place By the River, Sept 5 – Oct 5, 1996 Uptown Gallery, NYC, Celebration of Light: The Maine Landscape, May 1995 University of Maine Museum of Art, Magic is Alive, Jan–Feb '95 New England Foundation for the Arts, Cambridge, MA, April 1994 Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Jan. 6–Feb. 26, 1994 Uptown Gallery, NYC, Rainbows and Lightning, May 1993 Congress Square Gallery, Portland, ME, Mysteries: Orono, Maine, May 1992 Winfisky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA, Paintings: 1980–1990, September, 1991 Uptown Gallery, NYC, Maine Inspirations, May 1991 Congress Square Gallery, Portland, ME, New Work, April 1990 University of Maine Museum of Art, Orono, ME, January 1990 (reviewed in Art in America) Uptown Gallery, NYC, Maine Landscapes and Seascapes, Oct 1988 Congress Square Gallery, Portland, Maine, New Work, Oct 1987 Van Buren/Brazelton/Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA, Paintings; April 1986 Group Shows Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME, Landscapes of the Soul, Two-person show with Vincent Hartgen, November 2002 Gallery 357 Main, Rockland, ME, Group Show; May – June 2002 Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Water's Edge, May 2 – June 29, 2002 Aucucisco Gallery, Portland, Maine, Group exhibition, July 2001 Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, The Outdoors, February 1 – March 31, 2001 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, New Acquisitions 2001, Jan – March 2002 Vose Gallery, Boston, MA, Small Gems, December 2000 Northern Ireland Heritage Center, Bangor, Northern Ireland, Bangor to Bangor, July – Sept 2000 Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, New Millenium, July 6 – Sept 30, 2000 Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME, MCA Exhibition and Auction, July 25 – August 6,2000 Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME, The Maine Landscape:12 Painters, May 2000 Lewiston-Auburn College, Lewiston, ME, L/A Arts Exhibition and Auction, March 24 – May 5, 2000 Uptown Gallery, NYC, Gallery Artists, March 2000 Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, The Play of Light on Flowing Water; March 2–April 29, 2000 Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Baltimore, MD, Art '99 Benefit Exhibition; Nov.'99 Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Artist's Travels; Nov.4–Dec 30, 1999 Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, Contemporary Prints; July–August 1999 Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, A Place in the Sun, group exhibition, June 3–August 28, 1999 Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME, MCA Exhibition and Auction, July 20–August 1, 1999 Lewiston-Auburn College, Lewiston, ME, L/A Arts Exhibition and Auction, March 25–May 7, 1999 Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME, The Quiet Landscape, 4 person show, March 4–April 3, 1999 Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, The Forest, 5 person show, Feb.4–March 27, 1999 Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME, Maine Landscapes: Two Views, two-person show, December 1998 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, Biennial 1998, 2 paintings, Jurors: Will Barnet, Rachel Rosenfield-Lafo, Bridget Moore, Nov. 5–Jan 3, 1999 Gallery 357 Main, Rockland, Maine, Radiant Passage, two-person show, July '98 Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Painterly Bravura, July–August '98 Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Vistas, March 6–April 26, 1997 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, Recent Acquisitions Exhibition, Jan.–Feb. 1997 Starr Gallery, Newton, MA, Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem; Contemporary Visions,Sept. 8–Nov. 3, 1996 Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American Art web site, Washington D.C., and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) internet sites, NEA Permanent Archive of work of fellowship recipients, 10 paintings reproduced from New England Foundation for the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, beginning Fall 1996 J.S. Ames Fine Art, Belfast, ME, New Paintings, two person show, August 1995 Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME, Oceans of Oceans, July–August 1994 Regency Gallery, San Diego, CA, April–May 1994 UMF Art Gallery, University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, ME, Ideas of Nature, October, 1993 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Collecting for Harvard; Work Acquired Through The Generosity of Melvin R. Seiden, July 3–August 15, 1993 Levinson/Kane Gallery, Boston, MA, three person show, Contemporary Classicism, November–December 1992 University Gallery, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY., Alumni Art '92, September 1992 Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME, On The Edge:40 Years of Maine Painting, August–September 1992(guest curator; Theodore Wolff, Art Critic, NYC) Levinson/Kane Gallery, Boston, MA, The Dog Show, July–August 1992 Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Portland, ME, To Support, To Acknowledge, to Promote, September 1991 American Center, Sapporo, Japan, three person show, True North, June–July 1991 (traveled to American Center, Nagoya, Japan, Dec '91–Jan '92) Mills Gallery, Boston Center For The Arts, Boston, MA, National Endowment For the Arts/New England Foundation For the Arts Fellowship Recipients, February 1991 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Mainly Maine, July 1989 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, New Acquisitions, July–August 1988 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Tribute To Konrad Oberhuber, May–June 1987 Payson Gallery, Westbrook College, Portland, ME, Art Works: Corporate and Business Collections in Maine, Jan–March 1987 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, Saints and Sinners: Contemporary Responses To Religion, Nov 1986–Jan 1987 C O M M I S S I O N S Doubleday Publishing Co.; painting used as cover for the book "The Mountain of Silence" by Kyriacos Markides; September 2001 Colby College, Waterville, Maine; Miller Library; six landscape paintings commissioned for entrance way-lounge (Library Street/northend); August '97 B I B L I O G R A P H Y (partial listing) Sunday Portland Press Herald, What's New at the PMA, page 1E, Jan 6, 2002 Bangor Daily News, Artist Explores Winter in Orono in Colby Show by Alicia Anstead; pages C1,C2; January 27, 2000 Bangor Daily News, Art Seen: Landscape Exhibit a Study in Contrast, by Jenna Russell, page C1, December 10, 1998 Down East Magazine, painting Clearing reproduced, page T11, September 1998 Bangor Daily News, Capturing the dramas of the air, Lewis works capture majesty of nature, by Jenna Russell, January 13, 1998, pages C1 & C2 Waterville Sentinel, Six landscape paintings installed at Colby, December 14, 1997, page E7 Maine Sunday Telegram, A Community Gift: L/A Arts is Where the Auction Is, by Philip Isaacson, March 30, 1997 Downeast Magazine, Betting on Bangor, (photo and profile), pg.57, January 1996 Bangor Daily News; Maine Professor Continues Artistic Evolution by Alicia Anstead; February 9, 1995, pgs. C1 & C4 Boston Globe, Galleries, by Nancy Stapen (review of "ContemporaryClassicism" exhibition), December 3, 1992, pg. 73 Poughkeepsie Journal, Alumni Art Graces the SUNY Gallery, by Florence Schetzel, Sunday, August 30, 1992 Yoga Journal, Painting Ascension reproduced, July/August 1992, pg.144 Maine Sunday Telegram, Portland, ME, A Painter Colors His World and Ours, and Makes It Soft, by Philip Issacson, Sunday, May 10, 1992, pg. 6E Art in America, Michael H. Lewis at the University of Maine Museum of Art, (review) by Carl Little, September 1990, pg. 203 Art New England, Metamorphosis, Four Artists Reflect Maine's New Aesthetic, by Carl Little, July–August 1990 Bangor Daily News, An Art Afire, by Alicia Anstead, February 1, 1990 Artspeak, NYC, The Unearthly Landscapes of Michael H. Lewis, by Martin Parsons, October 1, 1988 The Cyprus Weekly, Nicosia, Cyprus, Eros and Psyche, June 5–11 1987, Pg. 25 Art New England, Saints and Sinners, DeCordova Museum, by Alicia Faxon, March 1987 G R A N T S New England Foundation for the Arts (in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts), drawing fellowship, $5000, 1990–1991 Back to Top