Summer is finally here!
Packing up my lovely studio of the past 3 years on the Ohio State campus will be bittersweet, but I am looking forward to spending 6 weeks in my home state of Vermont as an artist-in-residence at the 7 Below Arts Initiative. The residency runs July 1 - August 11. Stay tuned for "in the studio" snapshot updates.
I'm so pleased to have an honorable mention for this year's Snider Prize given by the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago to graduating MFA students.
Fragments of an Unknowable Whole
OSU Urban Arts Space | 50 W. Town St. Suite 130 | Columbus, Ohio 43215
Saturday, May 17, 2014 - Saturday, July 5, 2014
Reception
Saturday | May 17 | 5 to 7pm
The artists featured in Fragments of an Unknowable Whole complicate our everyday encounter with images and expand the boundaries of the photographic medium. Their generative and transformative practices are situated within and around a diverse field of spaces – the screen, the picture plane, and the physical object. They activate these spaces through conceptually bold and visually compelling inquiries, and disrupt the conventional notion of the photographic image as inherently fixed or depictive.
Ranging from Heidi Norton’s material analogies of photo processes and plant life cycles, to B. Ingrid Olson’s circuitous photographic assemblages of the body, to Jeremy Bolen’s experimental attempts to document unseen natural and man-made phenomena, the artists in this exhibition reveal new contexts for looking and embrace a multiplicity of possibilities for our engagement with images.
Curated by Timothy Smith
http://www.unknowablewhole.com/
Exhibiting Artists:
Matt Austin, Shannon Benine, Jeremy Bolen, Alex Chitty, Everything is Collective, Nick George, Steven Husby, Jessica Labatte, Sage Lewis, Jessica Mallios, Aspen Mays, Jesse McClean, Eileen Mueller, Heidi Norton, Mike Olenick, Gina Osterloh, B. Ingrid Olson, John Opera, Adam Schreiber, Jordan Tate, Ryland Wharton
Read a review of this exhibition in the Portland Press Herald here.
I'm thrilled to be included in this exhibition alongside many artists whose work I admire. I will be showing three tintype diptychs.
Curated by Susan Tureen.
The Fixed Shadow: A Juried Photography Exhibition of Camera-less Images
October 27–December 8, 2013
An
exhibit of camera-less images, including photograms, photogenic drawing,
and scanograms. There will be a public reception and gallery talk with
the jurors on Sunday, October 27, 3:00-5:30 pm.
Juried by Carol Panaro-Smith and James Hajicek
Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries at Wright State University, Dayton.
Artists:
Mary Ayling,
Parisa Ghaderi, Trevor King,
Sage Lewis,
Liam O’Connor,
Phillip Spangler, Cosmo Whyte
Work • Ann Arbor
September 27th, 2013 – November 1st, 2013
Opening reception, September 28, 6-9 pm
Objects become Things when they touch our lives. Some Things we can hold. Some are out of reach. Regardless of the distance both can have a hold on us. This exhibition is dedicated to those Things.
Please join us for the opening.
I'm honored to be a part of the 2013 Portland Museum of Art Biennial: Piece Work curated by Jessica May, the Museum's Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art. The show will be on view October 3, 2103 - January 5, 2014
The subtitle Piece Work is derived from the exhibition’s thematic approach. According to Jessica May, “Throughout the art-making communities in Maine, and the contemporary art world in the United States, we are in a particularly rich moment for art that evokes process, time-intensive labor, as well as the translation of media from one form to another.” The 2013 PMA Biennial will seek to expand on this insight by presenting a broad range of perspectives-including, for several artists, a direct engagement with the notion of time and human experience. Piece Work is meant to evoke the traditional labor-based notion of artisans and factory workers who are paid “by the piece,” but also to conjure the image in visitors’ minds of “one thing after another,” a seemingly endless repetition of making, passing, and making again.
Collecting Collections
This exhibition is an investigation of objects collected by individuals, many of whom are artists. The exhibition itself is a project by Emily Staugaitis. I've contributed a small collection of Herkimer diamonds and a larger collection of photo clippings of diamonds from my studio files, and I'm looking forward to seeing the accumulations of others. Opens Friday, February 3rd at City Art Center in Delaware, OH.
Cause and Effect
Featuring work by Ahmed Alsoudani, Hannah Barnes, Sean Foley, Sage Lewis, Larissa Mellor, Patrick O’Rorke, and Justin Richel and curated by Natalie Larsen
February 6–February 23, 2012
The Birke Art Gallery
Department of Art and Design
Marshall University
One John Marshall Drive
Huntington, WV 25755
Phone: (304) 696-2296
October 12–November 5
new watercolors at Aucocisco Gallery
89 Exchange St. Portland, Maine
as well as new work by these fine folks:
Cassie Jones
Chris Keister
Mark Wethli
"Sage Lewis has contributed a series of watercolors on sheets of propylene mounted on Plexi. Titled "Facet Studies," central forms shaped like irregular gems float in white space. They are beautifully delicate, like whispers of blue liquid, layered and pooling along the edges. It is fascinating to observe how our mind latches onto any intimation of representation, craving the satisfaction of recognition. We will thus see lunar surfaces and wild seas in some of these images. But we should not be deceived for long and give them the attention they so richly deserve as entirely abstract works of art that engage material possibilities to exquisite effect."
-Britta Konau, The Free Press (online), Oct. 26, 2011
read the full article here: art current: Four Intriguing Artists at Aucocisco Galleries
The Question of Drawing
July 1–August 21, 2011
The Question of Drawing examines the varied and adventurous definitions of what contemporary drawing can be. Are manipulations of pencil on paper the only acceptable definition of drawing? From paper to canvas to new media, the exhibition features artists who push the parameters of what is acceptable as a drawing. This exhibition is part of Where to Draw the Line: The Maine Drawing Project, a collaborative exhibition project of almost two dozen Maine museums and galleries.
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 543 Shore Road, Ogunquit, Maine 207-646-4909
*spring* Open Studios!
The Artist Studio Building
during the First Friday art walk: May 6th, 5-8pm
featuring the work of over 50 artists with live music and light refreshments!
I'll be in Studio #307, please come visit!
Above and Below the Line
The Maine Drawing Project at The Palmina F. & Stephen S. Pace Galleries of Art, Fryeburg Academy
curated by Deborah Whitney
March 26 - April 29, 2011
Artist Reception March 26th, 1--3pm
brunch fare and musical entertainment
The Maine Drawing Project, a statewide visual arts initiative, developed by the Maine Curator's Group, represents a unique collaboration. As part of the project, museums and galleries across Maine will offer exhibitions that focus on the process of drawing and how artists use it as a vehicle for creating diverse forms of visual expression.