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Lewis Mitchell Neeff is a multidisciplinary artist, animist, and magician working out of Colorado.

He was born and raised a cowboy in a ghost town in Wyoming. He has been commissioned by Museums and worked with some of the most well known arts and entertainment companies in the world. Currently Lewis is on a deep dive into the wide world of cartomancy and Psionics, creating an oracle deck to help educate and empower people through tried and true mystical strategies.

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Sharing a special moment with a stranger can be a profound experience. There’s something freeing about the unexpectedness of it — a feeling that you operated beyond the bounds of polite social interactions. In those gray areas between friendliness and anonymity, we don’t have to worry about the past or future, about baggage or hopes — we are in the present moment. On Saturday, August 3, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver is hosting an event called “Singing with Strangers: A Make Your Own Music Show” which focuses on those precious present moments by having local artists and musicians collaborate with visitors to create a completely unique concert.

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Neeff launched an ambitious $10,000 IndieGoGo campaign for Temple Tantrum late last week, with enticing pre-sale tickets for the event on September 1 and 2 offered as perks for making a donation, as well as posters, mixtapes, postcards and after-party access. But the real gain for pitching in is getting to see it happen: Along with headlining musical acts Pictureplane and Plantrae and a roster of twenty local bands, the event will include a juried fun-house art installation and performance art, drag queen wrestling, a comedy stage, food trucks, booze and a call for partiers to come in creative costumes.

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https://www.westword.com/arts/lewis-neeff-launches-diy-festival-temple-tantrum-comes-to-denver-in-september-10469202

Denver photographer Lewis Mitchell Neeff wants to change the way you look at portraits. He’s done so by diving deeper into the lives of his subjects.

Take Tonia Crosby, an Evergreen, Colorado resident who’s overcome two bouts with cancer. Her battle is shared as part of Neeff’s exhibition “Vulnerable,” which runs at Denver’s Dateline gallerythrough Aug. 20.

In the show, you’ll find a small diary she kept after her first diagnosis that’s full of short inscriptions like this:

“July 3, 2012: Pain, like pleasure is a message. It is not a punishment. Be with it.”

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https://www.cpr.org/2017/08/11/this-evergreen-womans-cancer-diary-will-change-the-way-you-view-portraits/

An art party like no other: Temple Tantrum’s weird, wild plans for Labor Day weekend

Photographer, sculptor and writer Lewis Neeff isn’t just interested in people as photographic subjects; rather, he reaches out to people, inviting them to participate in the process of telling a complete story, all in living color. Today, Neeff is borrowing ideas from the model of crowd-sourcing. For an upcoming exhibit, he appealed directly to the public via social media, asking people to sit for portraits and share personal diaries in the gallery. Read his answers to the 100CC questionnaire to learn about Neeff’s resulting Diary Library project — and more.

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https://www.westword.com/arts/denver-artist-lewis-neeff-launches-the-diary-library-at-dateline-gallery-9286658

“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, is the longest sentence you can create using only endangered species.” 

That’s Lewis Mitchell Neeff’s latest Twitter posting. 

It’s an experiment he calls the Adrenal Fatigue Project, a satire on the pointless blurbs of misinformation that the Internet constantly bombards us with, inducing a heightened awareness and fatigue. 

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In other words, Neeff is intentionally trying to stress out his followers — about nothing — while simultaneously making them stop and become aware of what is happening on a larger scale on their computer screen. Some alternative medicine practitioners are reporting a rise in what they call “adrenal fatigue,” from too much perceived (not actual) stress, too many alerts and too much information.