This is TauLewis

This is @TauLewis – a self-taught artist who uses hand sewing, carving and assemblage to build portraits. Her work typically pivots around three themes: the potential for emotive transference in found materials, the imagining of new geographies for black existence, and the production of something generative, even as she incorporates the painful legacy of the Black Diaspora. She’s joined by ‘Harmony’ (2019), pictured above in the early stages of being created, via Lewis's Instagram. The sculpture – now a ‘long-limbed, spindly, and roughly sewn together figure holding a threadbare, emptied-out globe’ – is central to her upcoming solo presentation in Art Basel Miami Beach’s Positions sector (with Toronto gallery @CooperCole). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Ahead of the show, she welcomed @Sky.Goodden to her Toronto studio. Tap the *Stories* link in bio to read the interview and see images of the completed work. #taulewis #artbaselmiamibeach #blackcontemporaryart #womenartists