Lewis began his career studying art at Ball State College where he was accepted as a child prodigy.  Later he studied fine art at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit Michigan where he also exhibited paintings and drawings at various galleries. In New York City he attended the Art Students League studying with, among others, Paul Jenkins the abstract phenomenist and George Tooker a figurative painter associated with the magic realism movement. After moving to Los Angeles he studied figure drawing under Charles White at Otis Art iInstitute. After graduating from Art Center College he has worked as an artist and illustrator for a variety of clients including for 20th Century Fox, Capital Records, Motown Records, and NASA. He has exhibited at several group shows and is represented in private collections, recently exhibiting at the DeYoung Museum in San francisco.

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