Ronan Day-Lewis paints the flickering, uncanny glow of the American subconscious. Mining online image archives, predominantly Flickr, he works with source material that feels both banal and ominous -- storm-chasing snapshots, suburban cul-de-sacs, rearview mirrors -- rendered with a blue, staticky haze that evokes the hum of CRT screens and a kind of psychic dislocation. His compositions hover between document and dream, tracing the strange emotional charge of exurban life and the digital vernaculars through which it’s remembered. The result is spectral, cinematic, and uncannily nostalgic His process, which he calls “digital mining,” blends early-2000s internet aesthetics with a painterly language uniquely his own.


Ronan Day-Lewis (b. 1998, New York, NY; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) received his BA in Visual Art from Yale University. Day-Lewis has had solo exhibitions at Megan Mulrooney, Los Angeles; Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong; and D. D. D. D., New York. Group exhibitions include Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY; Sothebys, New York, NY; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY; PALO Gallery, New York, NY; Smoke the Moon Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, MA. He is currently finishing post production on Anemone, his feature film directorial debut, with Focus Features.