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:

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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)