Events
Show Schedule 2025
Jan. 31- Feb. 2 ArtFest Fort Myers Fort Myers, FL
Feb. 8-9 Bonita Springs National Art Festival
Bonita Springs, FL
Feb. 15-17 Coconut Grove Arts Festival
Miami, FL
April 5-6 Mainsail Art Festival
Saint Petersburg, FL
April 10-13 MAIN ST. Fort Worth Arts Festival
Fort Worth, TX
Recent Awards
Best in Sculpture. Talbot Street Art Fair, Indianapolis, IN 2023
Award of Merit Great Gulf Coast Art Fest. Pensacola, FL 2023
Award of Excellence. Miami Fine Art Show, Miami, FL 2019
Award of Excellence. Miami Bch. Fine Art Show, Miami, FL 2019
Best of Show, Third Ward Art Festival, Milwaukee, WI 2019
1st Place Sculpture. Coconut Grove Art Festival, Miami, FL 2019
2nd Place, Bethesda Row Art Festival, Bethesda MD 2017
2nd Place 3-D, Gold Coast Art Fair, Chicago IL 2017
Best of 3-D, Millennium Art Festival, Chicago IL 2016
Best of Show, West Loop Art Fair, Chicago IL 2015
Best of Show, Orchard Lake Fine Art Show, MI 2015
Best in 3D Metal, Old Town Art Fair, Chicago, IL 2015
2nd Place Sculpture. Coconut Grove Art Festival, Miami, FL 2015
First Place Sculpture, Artigras, Jupiter, FL 2012
2nd Place Sculpture, Ft. Myers Arts Festival, Ft. Myers, FL 2012
First Place, SRAM Part Project, / World Bicycle Relief 2011
Best of Show, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, 2011
Judges Choice, Cain Park Arts Festival, Cleveland, Ohio 2009
Best in 3D Metal, Old Town Art Fair, Chicago, IL 2008
Best of Show, Main St. Art Festival, Ft Worth, TX 2008
Best of Show, Bayou City Arts Festival, Houston, TX 2007
FirstPlaceSculpture, Riverwalk Arts Festival, Naperville, IL 2007
Judges Choice, Cain Park Arts Festival, Cleveland, Ohio 2007
Best of Show, Main St. Art Festival, Ft Worth, TX 2007
Best in Sculpture, Gold Coast Art Fair, Chicago, IL 2005
Bringing an inanimate to life necessarily derives from a tendency to deconstruct, assessing function and relation, to cull life from objects otherwise unaware. Lewis Tardy’s sculptures are conglomerates of parts discarded, then rescued, using found materials as an avenue for building characters that test temporal boundaries, and defy certainty. His inquisitiveness is manifest in the work, with philosophy posing as life and welding breathing as art. Others have welded before, but rarely with such precision and vision. From medical halo devices and copper cooling coils, to old camera parts and vacuum tubes, the intense three dimensionality creates a bond between the art and the observer; seemingly asking us inaudible questions about how our bodies work and how our psyche’s behave. Oddly enough, these creatures communicate personality, so much so that I find myself waiting for one of them to fly off or drive away.
Evan La Ruffa
The Citrus Report
01/20/2010