For more than 45 years, Tom Palmore's portraits of animals have earned him a distinctive reputation for his masterful technical prowess and his reverence for his subject. His hyper-real renderings of animals in oil and acrylic offer a unique, and sophisticated whimsical, juxtaposition of technical literalism and surreal or magically real, imaginative context - questioning the established conventions of photography and painting, especially as evident in the portrait genre. 

Artist Spotlight


Jason Kowalski

Awarded 2024 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Kowalski’s work is far more than mere visual documentation of a past era’s roadside architecture. Though he wasn’t born yet when most of what he paints was full of the hopes and dreams of an era - when the “no vacancy” signs of motels along Old Route 66 lit up and the Holbrook Inns of now empty towns were jammed at night - somehow Kowalski intuits in his paintings of what remains of these edifices of Americana, the soul of a vital time and the folk that lived in it. He evokes that very spirit in his light-filled and affectionate treatment of the tangible remnants of what otherwise is merely memory and story. 

About the Gallery


LewAllen Galleries

Est. 1976

Santa Fe, NM

LewAllen Galleries has been a pioneering force for contemporary and modern art for more than 47 years, maintaining a robust schedule of exciting exhibitions, publications, and educational programs.