Kris Lewis

About

Kris Lewis is a contemporary pop-surrealist painter born in 1978 in Ocean County, New Jersey, where he grew up on the Jersey Shore with Latvian heritage influenced by his immigrant mother who fled communist Latvia. Raised in a large family, he was taught to draw by his father and sister, developing an early creative drive amid family dynamics of love, conflict, and tradition. After studying Illustration at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he continues to live and work, channeling influences from old masters into his oil paintings that depict stylized human figures as vectors for hidden stories, delicate emotions, and universal truths, often drawing from people-watching and personal experiences with elongated necks and ambiguous expressions symbolizing strength and power rooted in Latvian culture.

Pop-surrealist / Contemporary realist with classical influences, featuring stylized portraits with elongated forms and mysterious narratives