J Myszka Lewis is a visual artist that uses print media, embroidery, and painting to consider a variety of concepts that stem out of considerations of pattern and repetition. Her current work combines imagery from 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings with contemporary aesthetics and influences from the Pattern and Decoration movement. Her paintings and prints depict exploding Rorschach-like symmestrical abstractions, tangled gardens, and silhouetted botanical forms that reframe many of the themes presented by traditional floral still-lifes. J Myszka Lewis received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has participated in many group exhibitions at places such as the International Print Center New York (New York, NY), Charles Allis Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI), Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN), Museum of Wisconsin Art (West Bend, WI), Trout Museum of Art (Appleton, WI), and the Chazen Museum of Art (Madison, WI). She has participated in residencies at the Jentel Foundation in Banner, Wyoming and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska. She has been a finalist for a Luminarts Cultural Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship, the Hopper Prize, and the Forward Art Prize. In 2018, she received the Edna Wiechers Art in Wisconsin Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Division of the Arts. J Myszka Lewis is based in Madison, Wisconsin.