David Dodge Lewis was born and raised in Maine, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern Maine, and received his MFA from East Carolina University. He is currently Barger-Barclay Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, Hampden-Sydney College, having retired to Scarborough, Maine. He developed the wax-resist drawing technique (India ink, paraffin wax, compressed charcoal, Conté, and pencil on paper) in graduate school, and his drawings have received many awards, including articles in Drawing Magazine (see cover article, summer issue, 2015). He has presented workshops in wax-resist across the country. His oil portraits have also won critical acclaim, “Claire and Bev” (left) having been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery as part of the 2009 Outwin Boochever National Portrait Triennial. “My drawings reflect the way we pull meaning from chaos in everyday life. That may be the most defining virtue of our species. My subjects variously survive or succumb to erosion by waves of darkness, a sort of visual entropy. It is an effective medium for a range of metaphors. For example, a polar bear skull (left) can hang in the upper Arctic of its sheet of paper, melting into our latitudes.”