Joe Lewis (artist)

Joe Lewis (Joseph S. Lewis III) (born 1953 in New York City) is an American visual artist, photographer, musician, and art critic. His visual art often focuses on digital manipulations of the image. His work is represented by The Phatory in New York City.[1]

Joe Lewis
Born
Joseph S. Lewis III

1953 (1953)
New York City
Known forDigital art, Photography Performance Art Art Education Fashion Moda community-based artmaking
AwardsThomas J. Watson Fellow

Life and work

Lewis, who is African-American, received his M.F.A. in 1989 from Maryland Institute, College of Art and a bachelor’s in 1975 from Hamilton College, where he was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. Lewis was also a post-graduate student at CAiiA (now the Planetary Collegium): the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts: Sciences, Technology and Art Research, at the University of Plymouth.

Lewis was co-founding director of Fashion Moda in New York, where he curated and mounted numerous exhibitions and performance events.[2][3] He also early on has been associated with Colab and ABC No Rio,[4] showing at The Times Square Show, and has thus lectured extensively on public art, community-based artmaking and the alternative space movement.

He has written on art for Art in America, The LA Weekly and Artforum, and has been published in anthologies and peer-reviewed journals.[5]

As a visual artist, photographer, conceptual artist and performing artist, Lewis has had numerous exhibitions of his work both nationally and internationally and has participated in several residency programs including Anderson Ranch, CO; Cité des Artes in Paris; and the Darkroom Projectes in Milan. In 2008, he was named New York Foundation for the Arts Deutsche Bank Fellow in Photography.

Lewis served as chair at the Department of Art at California State University, Northridge from 1995 to 2001, and as a faculty member at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from 1991 to 1995. Lewis also has been dean of the School of Art & Design in the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in New York, which boasts a rigorous curriculum with significant interdisciplinary partnerships between art and technology and as dean of the School of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.[5]

Collections
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York[6]
  • The Studio Museum in Harlem
  • Wellin Museum of Art
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Norton Family Collection
  • Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas.

Footnotes
  1. "Joe Lewis", The Phatory.
  2. Alan W. Moore, Artists' Collectives: Focus on New York, 1975-2000 in Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, Blake Stimson & Gregory Sholette, (eds) University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007, pp. 193-221
  3. Times Square Show Revisited
  4. Max Schumann (ed.) A Book about Colab (and Related Activities) Printed Matter, Inc, 2016: pp.9-11
  5. Joseph S. Lewis III named dean of Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI Today, University of California, Irvine.
  6. https://www.moma.org/artists/67886

References
  • Carlo McCormick, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, Princeton University Press, 2006.
  • Alan W. Moore and Marc Miller, eds. ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery New York: ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects, 1985.
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