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PictureSadako Lewis
    Sadako Lewis is an abstract painter in the U.S. Gulf South who uses acrylic with collage and mark making techniques. She earned an arts scholarship to attend William Carey College with a concentration in painting and pottery. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with High Honors in 2001. Sadako is a professional artist from Japan who has won numerous juried shows, received several grants, commissioned multiple works and has paintings at several galleries. She enjoys the challenge of creating art.
Although Sadako now finds herself completing her life’s work, her journey as an artist began long ago.
    As a young teenager in the early 1960’s, she walked arm-in-arm down the narrow brick streets of Japan with her father, dreaming of visiting France to see the works of the French Impressionist masters. Her education in art began with her father, an Impressionist artist himself, as he taught her about Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Claud Monet.
   Growing up, Sadako enjoyed and valued contemporary cultures as well as the traditional cultures of Japan. She marveled at the images in her father’s vast collection of art books, especially those of
Post-Impressionists and Expressionists like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse. During her childhood and into young adulthood she took private lessons in drawing and painting and traditional Japanese calligraphy and tea ceremony.
    Although Sadako would not pick up brushes until the late 1990s, her passion for art grew following her father’s death in 1985. She knew in her heart that she was the person to carry on her father’s legacy. After receiving her BFA, she devoted herself full-time as a studio artist.
    Sadoko’s initial focus was on expressionist figures and landscapes in oil, but she had an epiphany while experiencing a Joan Mitchell exhibit in 2010. Sadako was moved to the core by the shockingly large-scale paintings with spontaneous brush strokes. She felt an overwhelming sense of freedom that led her to change the course of her artistic discipline.          
   Studying the history of Abstract Expressionism deepened her fascination as she learned that the movement started with European artists who immigrated to New York. Herself an immigrant to the U.S., Sadako is influenced by the early
Abstract Expressionists Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Hans Hofmann, Mark
Rothko and Cy Twombly who embodied the American Spirit which tends to be large, visionary, and
very individualistic in thought and emotion.
    Another big shift in Sadako’s artistic discipline was changing from oil to acrylic paint. She appreciates the versatility and fast drying time of acrylic which has allowed her to expand her creativity to experiment with adding other mediums to her paintings. Her works often include collage with various materials and mark makings - a direct impact from her experience with Japanese calligraphy in childhood.    


Awards:
2022           Commissions for Ochsner Health System, Primary Care, Biloxi, MS
2022           Commissions for BankPlus, Mobile, AL
2021           Visual Artists Fellowship Grant FY22 Mississippi Arts commission
and the National Endowment for the Arts
2021           Ochsner Health System, OBGYN Clinic purchase, Gulfport, MS
2020           Commissions for Pascagoula High School Performing Center, Pascagoula, MS

2017           p'ARTake 46, Martha Ford Memorial Award for Exceptional Abstract
2017           Achievement Award, 44th Bi-State Art Competition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2017           Honorable Mention Award, The Cedars Juried Show,  Jackson, MS
2017           MiniGrant FY18, Mississippi Arts Commission
and the National Endowment for the Arts
2016           Award of Excellence, 45th pArtake, Ocean Springs Art Association, Ocean Springs, MS
2016           Second Place, Mixed Media Show 2016, City of Slidell, LA
2016           Achievement Award, 43rd Annual Bi-State Art Competition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2016           MiniGrant FY17, Mississippi Arts commission
and the National Endowment for the Arts
2015           MiniGrant FY16, Mississippi Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts
2015           Third Place, ArtsAlive! Jured Show, Bay St. Louis, MS
2014           First Place, Mixed Media 2014, Slidell Culture Center at City Hall, Slidell, LA
2014           Visual Artists Fellowship Grant FY15, Mississippi Arts Commission
2013           MiniGrant 2014, Mississippi Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts
2013           Mississippi Art Colony Scholarship           
2012           Exceptional Abstract Painting Award, OSAA 41st Annual Fall Show
2012           Purchase Award, Mixed Media 2012, St. Tammany Parish, Slidell, LA
2012           Award of Distinction, Mixed Media 2012, Cultural Center at Slidell City Hall, LA
2009           Merit Award, 40th River Road Show, Baton Rouge, LA
2009           Merit of Excellence in Mixed Media, Ocean Springs Art Assoc. Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2007           Inclusion to SouthernArtistry.org
2006           Life-Time Membership, Ocean Springs Art Association, Ocean Springs, MS
2006           Grant from Andy Warhol Fund for Visual Artists and Craftsmen through Mississippi Arts Commission
2003           Merit of Excellence in Drawing, Ocean Springs Art Assoc. Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2003           Purchase Award, Ocean Springs Art Assoc. Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2002           Hazel Buck Foundation-Expression of Gulf Coast Award, Ocean Springs AA, Ocean Springs, MS
2002           Purchase Award, Ocean Springs Art Assoc.  Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2002           Best of Show, ArtWave 16th Annual Juried Exhibit, Bay St. Louis, MS
2002           Third Place, New Orleans Art Association 22nd National Juried Art Show, New Orleans, LA
2001           Outstanding Senior for the Year ‘00-01, Art Dept. William Carey College, Gulfport, MS
2001           First and Honorable Mention in Paintings and Honorable Mention in Drawing, Students Art Competition,                         William Carey College, Gulfport, MS
1998-2001  Six-President’s List, three-Dean’s List, William Carey College, Gulfport, MS
1998           Art Scholarship, William Carey College, Gulfport, MS
1998           1st & 3rd Places in Paintings, and Honorable Mention in Watercolor, Student Show, MGCCC, Gulfport, MS
1998           3rd Place in Photography Contest, Coast Magazine
1997           1st Place in Painting and 3rd Place in Photography, Student Show, MGCCC, Gulfport, MS

Exhibitions:

2022             Annual Juried Exhibition, The Arts, Hancock County, Bay St. Louis, MS
2022             51st p'Artake, Ocean Springs, MS
2022             48th Annual Bi-State Exhibition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2022             Paper Fools, Gail Keenan Art Center, Long Beach, MS
2022             Caron Gallery South, Grand Opening Exhibit, Laurel, MS
2021             50th p'Artake, Ocean Springs, MS
2021             11th Anniversary Show "Small Works,"  Caron Gallery, Tupelo, MS
2021             47th Annual Bi-State Exhibition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2020             46th Annual Bi-State Exhibition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2020             Art Space 86: 7th Art Lovers' Soiree, Fishers Gallery, Jackson, MS
2019             27th Mixed Media Juried Exhibition, Slidell Culturals Center, Slidell, LA
2019             ArtsAlive! Juried Show, Ground Zero Museum, Waveland, MS
2019             About Face-- Portrait Exhibit, MGCCC Jeff Davis Campus, Gulfport, MS
2019             Yummy Celebration of Color Juried Show, Biloxi, MS
2019             Water, Water Invitational, Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS
2018             ArtsAlive! Ground Zero Museum, Waveland, MS
2018             47th p'Artake, Ocean Springs, MS
2018             26th Annual Mixed Media Juried Exhibition, Slidell Cultural Center, Slidell, LA
2018             The Cedars Juried Competition 2018, The Cedars, Jackson, MS
2018             Vibranse, Studio Waveland, Waveland, MS
2018             Art Lovers' Soiree, Jackson, MS
2018             ArtsAlive! Juried Show, Bay St. Louis, MS
2017             OSAA 46th p'Artake, Ocean Springs, MS
2017             The Cedars Juried Competition 2017, The Cedars, Jackson, MS
2017             44th Annual Bi-State Art Competition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2017             ArtsAlive! Juried Show, Bay St. Louis, MS
2017             2017 New Orleans National Art Exhibition, the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, NO, LA
2016             OSAA 45th p'Artake, Ocean Springs, MS
2016             Mixed Media 2016, City of Slidell, LA
2016            The Cedars Juried Competition 2016, The Cedars, Jackson, MS
2016            43rd Bi-State Competition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2016            ArtsAlive! Juried Show, Bay St. Louis, MS
2016            Perspective 360, Negrotto's Frame and Art, Biloxi, MS
2015            Emerging Artist Exhibit, Hattiesburg Arts Council, Hattiesburg, MS
2015            OSAA 44th Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2015            Building Bridges Juried Show, Alexandria, VA
2015            ArtAlive! Juried Show, the Arts Hancock, Bay St. Louis, MS
2015            MAC Fellowship Award Recipients' Show, Jackson, MS
2014            OSAA 43rd Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2014            Forth Sunday at Four, Christ Church, Bay St. Louis, MS
2014            49th National Juried Artists Exhibit, Covington, LA
2014           
MAC Fellowship Award Recipients' Show, Hattiesburg, MS           
2014            22nd Annual Mixed Media Competition, City of Slidell, Slidell, LA

2014            Honninmyo, Negrotto's Gallery & Custom Framing, Biloxi, MS
2014            ArtAlive Juried Show, the Arts Hancock, Bay St. Louis, MS
2014            Solo Exhibit 'Honninmyo',Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Jefferson Davis Campus, Fine                                Gallery, Gulfport, MS
2013            OSAA 42nd Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2013            40th Annual Bi-State Art Competition, Meridian, MS
2013            Midsummer Night's Dream, Gemini Gallery, Bay St. Louis, MS
2013            48th National Juried Artists Exhibition, STAA, Covington, LA
2013            5th Juried Biennial Invitational, Greenville Arts Council, Greenville, MS
2013            Balance, Gemini Gallery, Bay St. Louis, MS
2013            Reunite, Ocean Springs Art House, Ocean Springs, MS
2013            Feature Show, Bay St. Louis Courthouse, Bay St. Louis, MS
2013            Feature Show, Mockingbird Cafe, Bay St. Louis, MS
2013            Art, the Visible Thread that Connects, Gail Keenan Art Gallery, Pass Christian, MS
2012            OSAA, 41st Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2012            Waveland City Hall Invitational Juried Show, Waveland, MS
2012            Future Show, Mockingbird Café, Bay St. Louis, MS
2012            Altered Reality, Negrotto’s Gallery, Biloxi, MS        
2012            Mixed Media 2012, Slidell Culture Center at City Hall, Slidell, LA
2011            Inspirations, Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS
2011            OSAA 40th Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2011            The CARRY250 EXHIBITION, Lucile Parker Gallery, William Carey Univ., Tradition, MS
2010            16th Poydras Home Art Show, New Orleans, LA
2010            OSAA 39th Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2010            Arts Alive!, Garden Club, Bay St. Louis, MS
2010            Process, Evert Witte’s Studio, Bay St. Louis, MS
2010            Art & Soul, Negrotto’s Gallery, Biloxi, MS
2009            X-MAS Miniature Show, The Arts House, Ocean Springs, MS
2009-10       40th Annual River Road Show, Louisiana State Archive Buld. Baton Rouge, LA
2009            International Extravaganza, Negrotto’s Gallery, Biloxi, MS        
2009            15th Poydras Home Art Show, New Orleans, LA
2009            OSAA, 38th Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2009            Alabama Art Colony Show, The Sarah Carlisl Towery Art Colony on Lake Martin, Alexander City, AL
2009            Women of the Coast, Negrott’s Gallery, Biloxi, MS
2009            Art Exposure, Williams Gallery, Gulfport, MS
2009            First Group Show, Gallery 782, Biloxi, MS
2009            Group showArts House, Ocean Springs, MS
2008            OSAA 37th Annual Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2008            Group Show “Trip,” Wave Gallery, Waveland, MS
2008            George E. Ohr National Challenge, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
2008            Feature Show, Mockingbird Café, Bay St. Louis, MS
2008            “Tree,” Wave Gallery, Waveland, MS
2008            Feature Show, Mockingbird Café, Bay St. Louis, MS
2008            “Change,” Wave Gallery, Waveland, MS
2008            “Love,” Wave Gallery, Waveland, MS
2008            34th Bi-State Art Competition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
2007            OSAA 36th Annual Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2007            ArtsAlive! Cathy Waugh Photography, Bay St. Louis, MS
2007            Group Show, Andrew Jessup `Gallery, Biloxi, MS
2007            The Amherst Show, Nacul Cneter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA
2007            Self Portraits, The Chamber Art Gallery, Bay St. Louis, MS
2007            Greenville 2007 Invitational Exhibit, E. E. Bass Gallery, Greenville, MS
2007            Southern Surge, Del Ray Artisans Gallery, Nicholas Coiasanto Center, Alexandria, VA
2006            Substance, Spirit, and Survival, Gala Gallery, Georgetown, Washington D. C.
2006-7         37th Annual River Road Show, LA Archive Building, Baton Rouge, LA
2006            OSAA 35th Annual Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2006            Group Show, Andrew Jessup Gallery, Biloxi, MS
2006            MAC & ANDY, The Cedars, Jackson, MS
2006            George Ohr Rising: Gulf States Juried Exhibition, Fine Art Gallery, MGCCC, Gulfport, MS
2006            Solo Show, Gallery One, Paseo, Ok
2006            33rd Annual Bi-State Art Competition, Meridian Museum Of Art, Meridian, MS
2005            Bridge The Gulf Project, The ArtSpice Gallery, Paseo, Ok
2005            The Halpert Biennial, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State Univ. Boone, NC
2004            Group Show, Peace Builder Exhibit, SGI-USA Community Center, New Orleans, LA
2004            Group Show of 12 Artists, Sekul’s Wolface Pottery & Gallery, Ocean Springs, MS
2004            Southern Chroma, World Trade Center, New Orleans, LA
2004            ART ALUMNI, The Sara Gillespie Gallery, William Carey College On The Coast, Gulfport, MS
2004            Solo Show, Recent Works By Sadako Lewis, Sekul’s Wolface Pottery & Gallery, Ocean Springs, MS
2003            George E. Ohr National Arts Challenge 2003, The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
2003            10th Annual GulfCoast Nat’l Juried Art Comp., Texas Artists Museum. Port Arthur, TX
2003            Group Show: Made by Hand, sponsored by Venezuela Consulate, World Trade Center, NO, LA
2003            Solo Show, The13th Street Gallery, Gulfport, MS
2003            SGI Artists Show, McFarland Auditorium, Memorial Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
2003            ArtWave 17th Annual Juried Exhibit, The Old Train Depot Art Gallery, Pascagoula, MS
2003            Solo Show, The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Jambalaya Gallery, Biloxi, MS
2003            Artists with High Chroma, World Trade Center, New Orleans, LA
2002            George E. Ohr National Arts Challenge 2002, The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
2002            OSAA 31st Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2002            ArtWave 16th Annual Juried Exhibit, The Lumberyard Art Center, Bay St. Louis, MS
2002            New Orleans Art Association 22nd National Juried Art Show, New Orleans, LA
2002            Art With A Southern Drawl X, University of Mobile, Mobile, AL
2001            Quill-&-Kiln 2001, Ohr Juried Exhibition, The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
2001            Solo Show: Figure Paintings, Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Gulfport, MS
2000            OSAA 29th Fall Show, Ocean Springs, MS
2000            Arts Evening, Olde Town Slidell, Slidell, LA
2000            Four-Artist Show, Fabacher Gallery, Slidell, LA


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