Glenn Lewis
by Richard Simmins
artscanada magazine

June 1970, issue 144/145

Glenn Lewis of Vancouver is famous for his broken ceramics, beautiful light boxes, blue-taped environments, Chaplinesque humour, and his Eaton’s overall wit.

His great Salt Shaker for Osaka was rejected recently by czarist Commissioner General. Lewis offered to break all the shakers if this would affect its erection.

The artist’s new wooden sheds are not shit houses, in fact not shed's but CLOSETS. They are designed to house previous objects. They are portable.

Take E to understanding Lewis is to accept his expanding environment from pots to sculpture to film to taping city blocks to claiming a slag mountain to enclosing everything again in a plywood CLOSET.

Lewis says that his CLOSETS are perceptual tools. He has copyrighted this idea. The doorknobs are quite special.

When not working on beautiful light boxes for his closets, The artist creates dramas. His latest: How I Sued The Queen or Elizabeth Barred From The New Era Social Club.

Vancouver is not an outport claims Lewis,"I am active here, in New York and in Los Angeles. I plan a trip around the world. My cool blue plastic tape will slowly unwind, indelibly marking all the spaces and people I have moved around."