Samella Lewis: The Work is Never Finished: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings

The Work is Never Finished: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings focuses on the artwork of Dr. Samella Lewis, highlighting prints, drawings, paintings, and sculpture created as personal responses to lived experience. Working from memory and emotion rather than direct observation, Lewis developed symbolic figures that convey collective states of outrage, sorrow, intimacy, and resolve. Her images reflect the social realities of Black life while functioning as an essential form of personal expression.