GLENN LEWIS: Borrowed Landscape

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Glenn Lewis, " Borrowed Landscapes," 2018

Franc Gallery

Franc Gallery invites you to Glenn Lewis’s new solo exhibition.

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 1, 6pm - 9pm

I connect the pots and the photographs from metaphorical and poetic considerations. In this series, I see the metaphors embedded in the material - the stone pot and the representation of the landscape. The stone in the landscape of the photograph is the materiality of the pot. We oscillate between the place and the pot until as Paul Galvez describes, “form and content for a split second interpenetrate”.¹ At this point the pot and photograph operate as one creating an experience neither could provide alone.

^{Glenn Lewis, 2018}

Born in Chemainus, British Columbia in 1935, Glenn Lewis is an innovative first-generation conceptual mixed media artist and a central figure in Vancouver's experimental art scene of the 1960's and '70s. He was involved in a number of artists’ collectives and artist-run centres, which included Intermedia, the New Era Social Club and the Western Front as one of its founders. Lewis has worked with pottery, sculpture, performance, correspondence, photographs, video, horticulture and installation since his early career, questioning the dichotomy between the static and the transient, conventional objects and art, social obligation and natural instinct, function and wonder. He was awarded the prestigious Emily Award from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2000 and received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2017. His work is part of several private and public collections in Canada, USA, Japan, England, and France, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

1. Paul Galvez, “Inner States (on Gustave Courbet)”, Artform, May 2008, p.345-6