Doug(las) Lewis
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 Doug(las) Lewis                          Featured  Works                                     
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Between Sound and Vision,  digital print, mylar, 70x80 "​

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Listen Close, mixed-media installation, KUN Art Museum, Beijing

My recent works are motivated by one 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  interests were swayed towards trying to understand what is it that defines 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.
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Untitled, Mixed-Media,  Kun Art Museum 
Crush, single channel video,  5min 22

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Defining Blue, Oil on Canvass, 40x30cm
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Ink Me In Beijing,  rice paper, ink/ink brush (from street performance)

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

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​"Rainbow Carts with Context",  DaZhou, China, Cave Art Gallery  01/2020
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"Facts Stripped Bear"  Photo on aluminium,  .4Mx1.2M, 2021

 The Doors, single channel video, Hong Kong,  2019

photography on aluminium55'65",  2017

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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           Wild West,  2015, Manitoba, Canada, 2m x2.2m digital photo
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           Bellini's New Form, single channel video, 2019
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Basket Case,  installation,  Songzhuan, Beijing, CN, 2018

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Screening at the Drum&Bell, single-Channel video,  2015
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Screening at Drum&Bell Tower, video installation, Nanjing, 2017
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The Wall, digital print, 40x60 ",  2006

Why Not Snooze, #2, single-channel video, 2015
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Screen-cycle, digital photo, 45"x 55", 2013

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Sounds then Visions Installation, Yan Huang Museum, Beijing, 2018

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 Grandworld installation, Site-specific work,  photography on mylar 60x70"

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3rd Practice Project,  Toyin Around, Winnipeg, Canada, July 2017
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"Lewis blurs cultural anthropology (ethnography) and art, and calibrates things materially by throwing in (and sharing) his perspective"  -,  Gilles Hebert,  2017
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In|Outsourcing, Nanjing University Art Museum, 2015 - curated by Douglas Lewis and Wang Yamin

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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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Lewis' artwork explores relationalenvironments between social and subconscious spaces using a onstantly evolving variety of mediums that often include video, photo, audio, sculpture​, performance and installation media".   -artist Andy Denzler, 2006
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  • SELECTED WORKS
  • Recent | Past
    • 2001-2020 >
      • SaltLicks Project
      • SideWalk Project
      • ART Screen Theories >
        • Bricks Project
        • Sound Vision and Screen
        • Super Bar Street Project
      • INSTALLATIONS Archive
      • SYNAPTIC POP
      • Stamp Series Project
  • Curator | 3rd Practice
  • SOUND
  • INSTRUCTOR