Margrit Lewczuk (b. 1952, New York City) is an American artist known for her monumentally scaled, interlacing abstractions. Where she previously painted small, earth-toned abstract canvases, for the past two decades Lewczuk has explored vibrantly coloured abstract paintings of overlapping organic and geometric forms on a monumental scale. Inspired by Graffiti Art, tribal motifs and patterns derived from ancient art, particular Aztec murals and textiles, Lewczuk’s paintings balance the geometric and the organic with a sensory energy.
Lewczuk graduated from Queens College, New York (1973) and the Brooklyn Museum Art School (1976), and taught at the New York Studio School from 2003-2019. Among her numerous awards are a CAPS Grant; National Endowment for the Arts Artist’s Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship Grant; Rauschenberg Foundation Change Grant, and the Esther and Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Grant.
She currently lives and works in Brooklyn with her husband, fellow artist and professor Bill Jensen.
