Doug(las) Lewis
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  Doug(las) Lewis                                       Blog     2015 - 2022                                                                                

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Between Sight and Sound, digital print on mylar, 70x80" 2017

I approach art making often in the form of installations. I want to co-habit spaces, exploring, psychologies of "the self". My interests are to locate uncertain distances between persons, places, events and/or things.
As an independent curator I developed a practice called "3rd Practice Projects" which is became hybrid relationships between myself as artist/cultural  producer and selected artists. 3rd Practice Projects take the form of group exhibitions that aim to close distances between art and the public. 3rdPractice Projects produce situations and dynamics that examine relationships between idea/aesthetic and people.  There are parallels between the two practices, and are kept very separate when curating non-3rdPracticeProjects and my own art.
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Listen Close, installation,  2021, KUN Art Museum,  Beijing, China


​My works are motivated by an idea do sounds drive images or are images an echo of sound?" What phenomena lie between them? What are disconnects or contradictions between action/image/sound? How does such phenomena animate life?  My work investigates causal sensations we use for navigating everyday. Some works point toward life as a cinematic experience,  others through performances, objects and installations.

Having lived and travelled between China and Canada for well over a decade, my  interest sway towards tryingus to understand what is it that defins what often vast expanses that stretch between us – identity, language and geography. My travels influenced a persona I like to keep. Like the mythic "flaneur", I have learned that being a stranger to a new land/culture/home or between people I find that making art/performances as stranger most interesting as it keeps my work asking questions; there is solace in being a constant stranger ("I am the place where I am", Henri Lefebvre, circa 1982)  My mediums include photography, audio/video, sculpture, painting and performance.

Crush, 2022, single-channel video, 5min.22


Crush, floor installation, International Art Video Festival,  Basel, CH, 2022

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Blue Dot, oil on canvas, 2019

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Ink Me in Beijing, rice paper, Chinese ink, performance, 2016

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One Step Ahead, digital photo on aluminium, 70"x80", 2019, Shanghai. CN

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"7  events ", seven single channel videos, altered construction carts, Cave Arty Gallery, Dazhou, CAN.

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Facts Stripped Bear, digital photo on aluminium,  36"x  60", 2022

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InOutsourcing, Nanjing University Arts Museum, 2015 co-curtors, Douglas Lewis, Wang Yamin

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Wild, Wild, West, 2020, Beausejour, MB.  CA

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 Bellini's New Form video, Basket Cases, Installation, mixed-media, Songzhuan Gallery, CN, 2018

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          The Drum and Bell Screening, single channel video/performance, 2015

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Carting It Around, video installation, AMNUA Gallery, Nanjing, 2017

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The Great Wall,  digital print, 40"x60", 2009

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Screening  #1, digital photo on aluminium, 2015

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Sounds and Visions,  mixed-media installation, Yan Huang Museum, 2018

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GRANDWORLD. photo installation, Unit#1 Gallery, Beijing, 2015


Why Not Snooze???  Photo/ Single-channel video, 2015


The Doors, single-channel video, Hong Kong, 2019

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As curator  I have worked for museums and galleries in Canada, China and the UK. My interests are influenced by similar concerns: the dynamics of persons, the spaces they habit and how it defines them.  As an independent curator, I developed 3rd Practice Projects which is concept-driven by a hybrid relationship between myself as artist, curator and producer. The 3rd Practice is not meant to span between artist/gallery/public but more towards producing situations and dynamics that re-examine their relationship.  Such exhibitions  are always  group exhibitions. 
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3rd Practice Project,  Jus' ToyinAround, Winnipeg, Canada, July 2017

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 Co-curated exhibition,  In/Outsourcing Art Museum Nanjing (AMNUA), 2015

​Sračok & Pöhlmann is a project founded in Susak, Croatia, in 2006, by Herman Sračok and Rupert Pöhlmann. They support leading contemporary artists and are working in an international landscape, developing exhibition spaces in London, Croatia and New York.                 contact: Sračok & Pöhlmann

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