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Lewis is perhaps best known for his brooches and neckpieces exploring gay male sexual identity, and commemorating friends and acquaintances who died of AIDS, along with sexually-charged enamel jewelry inspired by the provocative frescos at Pompeii.

Keith Lewis | Dead Souls: Desire and Memory in the Jewelry of Keith Lewis, by Damian Skinner

To celebrate the opening of OUT of the Jewelry Box, join us for an enlivening two-part conversation with the exhibition’s artists. Jeweler Keith Lewis will begin the evening with a touching lecture about his groundbreaking series memorializing lives lost …

Keith Lewis was born in the wilds of Pennsylvania, but now lives in the wilds of Eastern Washington, where he teaches jewelry at Central Washington University. In Fall 2023, arnoldshe Art Publishers will be issuing a monograph on his work.

Mar 10, 2024 · Keith Lewis gave this talk at Galerie Handwerk on March 1, 2024, during Munich’s jewelry week. Thank you to the gallery for graciously letting us present in their space. Lewis’s book was published through AJF’s fiscal sponsorship program; for information on fiscal sponsorship, click here.

Apr 19, 2024 · Lewis has been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions and definitive books, including Ralph Turner, Jewelry in Europe and America: New Times, New Thinking (London: Crafts Council of Great Britain and Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1996); Torch Songs: 50 Years of Northwest Jewelry, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington (1998 ...

Sep 9, 2024 · Lewis has a very clear and sharp view of contemporary jewelry and has never been one to bite his tongue. The strength required to be a vocal activist for AIDS research and the rights of AIDS patients clearly lingers on in his views on contemporary jewelry.

Growing up in the Far East and Europe, Keith Lewis has been creating jewelry for over 30 years which celebrates materials and textiles found in Nature. Lewis utilizes techniques from formal techniques and goldsmithing to more “serendipitous” surface treatments in creating his own take on Japanese Patina or “Raku” effects.

The most controversial jewelry artist working in the United States, Keith Lewis Is undergoing a transition from propagandist to post activist artist.