Glenn Lewis (artist) explained

Glenn Lewis
Birth Name:Glenn Alun Lewis
Birth Place:Chemainus, British Columbia, Canada
Education:1961–64, Studied ceramics under Bernard Leach, St. Ives, Cornwall, England.

1958–59, Teaching Certificate, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

1954-58, Graduated with honours in painting, drawing and ceramics, Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design.)

Notable Works:An Earthly Paradise Journey Through Nine Stages Image installation, 1970-ongoing. Installed at the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Devonian Harbour Park, Vancouver, 2013.

Blue tape around City Block Video, 1969. Installed at Coal Harbour community centre, Vancouver, 2013; Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden, 2013; Camley Street Natural Park interpretive centre, London, 2012

I Won't Take Your Hand, Monsieur Manet, I Have Not Washed in Eight Days 2008

Awards:Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (Video)

Glenn Lewis (born 1935) is a Canadian cross-disciplinary contemporary artist.[1] [2] Lewis is also known by his adopted artistic persona Flakey Rrose Hip [''[[sic]]].[3]

Life and career

Lewis is a contemporary ceramicist, sculptor, potter, muralist, photographer, videographer, filmmaker, performance artist, and writer, as well as a teacher and administrator.[4] [2] [5] [6]

After receiving a scholarship from the Royal Canadian Legion in Kelowna, British Columbia in 1954, Lewis spent the next ten years studying painting, drawing, and ceramics, and teaching.[7] [8] In 1969, Lewis was commissioned by the Canadian government to create a work of art for Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. Artifact, a sculptural ceramic work, was ultimately not shown, because it was thought by the commissioner of the Canadian pavilion to be obscene.[9]

As a co-founding member of the New Era Social Club, Intermedia, and, in 1973, the Western Front, Lewis was one of an internationally recognised group of artists who established social practice as an artistic medium in Vancouver.

Lewis has been influential as an educator. Previous students of artist's include Gathie Falk, who studied sculpture under Lewis at the University of British Columbia.[10]

In 2017, Lewis was named by the Canada Council for the Arts as one of eight recipients of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts, for which he received a $25,000 cash prize.[8]

Lewis lives and works in Roberts Creek, British Columbia.[11]

See also

Further reading

References

  1. Web site: The Artist As a Fraud: Glenn Lewis - The Geist Gallery . 2017-08-18 . geist.brushd.com . 18 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170818091132/http://geist.brushd.com/glenn-lewis . live .
  2. Web site: Glenn Lewis. Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. en. 2017-08-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20171215195529/http://ggavma.canadacouncil.ca/glenn-lewis. 15 December 2017. dead.
  3. Web site: Flakey the early works of Glenn Lewis . 2024-03-25 . The Polygon . 30 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221130073815/https://thepolygon.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2010-Glenn-Lewis-exhibitionbrochure.pdf . live .
  4. Book: den Daas , Ron . Kenny . Kathy . Wild New Territories portraits of the urban and the wild London Vancouver Berlin . Black Dog Publishing Limited . first . 2016 . London . 27, 30–31, 94 . en . 978-1-910433-64-5 . 23 August 2017 . 14 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191014065738/https://www.blackdogonline.com/ . live .
  5. Web site: Glenn Lewis. Belkin Gallery. vancouverartinthesixties.com. en. 2017-08-18. 18 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170818085850/http://vancouverartinthesixties.com/people/3. live.
  6. Web site: Artists in Canada. Network. Government of Canada, Canadian Heritage, Canadian Heritage Information. app.pch.gc.ca. en. 2017-08-18. 18 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170818090200/https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?rID=9842&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=en&pID=1&an=glenn%20lewis&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC. live.
  7. Web site: Glen Lewis. ccca.concordia.ca. 2017-08-23. 24 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170824011528/http://ccca.concordia.ca/cv/english/lewis-cv.html. live.
  8. News: Vancouver artists Landon Mackenzie, Glenn Lewis win Governor General's Awards. 2017-02-17. Vancouver Sun. 2017-08-18. en-US. 18 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170818091901/http://vancouversun.com/entertainment/local-arts/vancouver-artists-landon-mackenzie-glenn-lewis-win-governor-generals-awards. live.
  9. News: Glenn Lewis: Art Banned by Canada. 2010-10-22. Vancouver Sun. 2017-08-18. en-US. 18 June 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180618232627/http://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/glenn-lewis-art-banned-by-canada. live.
  10. Book: Jacques, Michelle . Gathie Falk: Life & Work . Art Canada Institute . 2022 . 978-1-4871-0285-2 . Toronto . 21 July 2023 . 21 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230721150554/https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/gathie-falk/biography/ . live .
  11. Web site: CCCA Artist Profile for Glenn Lewis. ccca.concordia.ca. 2017-08-23. 24 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170824013046/http://ccca.concordia.ca/artists/Glenn_Lewis. live.

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