Steve Lewis, who was born and raised in Dividing Creek, New Jersey, USA now resides in Leipzig. Lewis first moved to Leipzig in 1994 after graduating from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. There he studied painting with Joan Semmel and Billie Pritchard. Lewis returned to the US for two years and received his MFA from Edinboro University in Edinboro, PA in 1999 where he was a master student under Steve Emmett.Lewis has been working on a series of new paintings that are called meta-triptychs. Each of these paintings include three focal points within one narrative scene. There seems to be a break or a change in the flow of a normal event; where a surprise or something unexpected takes place. As one views the depicted moment in time, one ponders what has just taken place and what will happen next. This engagement with the painting is as much the art as the painted piece. The compositions are arranged in a manner whereby the viewer feels as though they are part of the environment or could easily imagine stepping into the scene – where they become part of the narrative for that moment and begin to contemplate what to do next.