It’s an incredible canvas for light.”Īlthough far from pornographic, gmark’s Tumblr page ( ) might best be viewed at home, not with your coworkers peeping over your shoulder. “Because of the roundness of everything, you can create wonderful drop-offs on shadows.
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“The female form is full of s-curves: from the shoulders down the side to the hip, the back of the calf, the knee, the side of the butt, it’s nothing but s-curves and lines and shadows,” he says. Light is why Lewis specializes on shooting the female body. Control the light, and you control reality - even the laws of physics. Not extensive Photoshopping (he barely uses the technique.) No special digital effects. As with all of Lewis’ art, the light is the secret. Much like a magician, Lewis does not reveal his tricks - unless you come by his lab.Įven as I looked at his Zero G lab, my brain twisted and tied itself into tangles trying to fully grasp the concept.
“I had someone else say, ‘I don’t know how you do it, and I don’t care.’ He didn’t need to know.” I had lighting people and an engineer figure it out, but not many people do,” Lewis says. The photos were shot on dry land, Lewis says. The Seattle Times wrote about Lewis’s “black-and-white underwater shots of dancers in dynamic motion,” and that’s how the show’s organizers described it, too.īut there is no swimming pool here. That’s one of gmark’s trademarks that baffles audiences and has landed him in shows across the country, such as the Seattle Erotic Art Festival several years ago. Railroad at Loveland’s Artworks studio, a collaboration of 15 juried artists supported in part by a foundation. Lewis recently relocated across the downtown railroad tracks to 310 N. He writes on Facebook: Today starts the next era of gmark art. Then there are the “monkeys.” That’s what he calls his imaginative mind. He affectionately calls his regular models his “lab rats.” In fact, he calls his Loveland-based studio a “lab” because he tries something different every day. Lewis himself is a mad scientist, only he experiments with light and shadows instead of chemicals in beakers.