29 PIECES ... A conversation by - Gathie Falk Glenn Lewis Joan Lowndes Richard Simmins Thomas H. Garver being an imagination from quotations "imagined" by Thomas Graff In a show of the recent work of Gathie Falk and Glenn Lewis, the Vancouver Art Gallery presented 29 PIECES, The sculpture exhibition began June 16 and extended to July 19, 1970. The show comprised eight closet sculptures by Lewis as well as photographic documentation of one of the closets in various locations in the city. Twenty-one Fruit Pleces and ten other sculptures were chosen to represent Falk, Thomas H. Garver: Glenn Lewis studied painting at the Vancouver School of Art, but seemingly rejected the high arts for the decora= tive arts, becoming @ potter. He taught briefly following graduation, then spent three years in England, working and studying with the famous British potter, Bernard Leach, He returned to Canada in 1963 and taught from 1964 to 1967 in the School of Education at the University of British Columbia, While the chief emphasis of the courses he taught there was on the training of potters, he also taught ceramic sculpture to those potters. In the fall of 1967 Lewis spent four months in Japan travelling ona Ganada Council grant. When he returned he began a re- markable outpouring of ceramic sculpture, {the cataloque for NEW ART OF VANCOUVER, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1969), Joan Lowndes: Po On his return (from Japan) everyone asked him what he had learned but he found it hard to say. These things take time to filter through the system, (Vancouver Sun)