Biography
1935 Born Chemainus, B.C.
1954–58 Graduated with honours in painting, drawing and ceramics Vancouver School of Art
1958–59 Graduated, Faculty of Education, UBC with B.C. Teaching Certificate
1961–64 Studied ceramics under Bernard Leach St.Ives, Cornwall, England
Solo Exhibitions
2011 "Taxonomies" Western Front, Vancouver
2011 "Glenn Lewis - Signs of Life" Chernoff Fine Art, Vancouver
2010 "FLAKEY: The Early Works of Glenn Lewis 1965 – 1972" Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver. Catalogue
2008 “Cézanne’s Eyes and Hands,” includes the video installations “I Won’t Take Your Hand Monsieur Manet, I Haven’t Washed in Eight Days” and “Purloined,” with sculptures and photographs Oboro, Montreal
2005 “Walls Graphs,” remounting of installation from 1969 Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver. Curated by CAUSA.
2005 “Stucco Floor Divided,” remounting of installation from 1969 Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver. Curated by CAUSA.
1993 “Utopiary, Metaphorest and Bewilderness: Selected Works from 1967-1993,”
includes the installations “Bower” and “Signscapes” in park near gallery
Burnaby Art Gallery. Catalogue.
1986 Photographs (with Geoffrey James) Coburg Gallery, Vancouver
1984 Photographs and prints, “Myth-Garden-Paradise” Sechelt Art Centre, Sechelt, B.C.
1983 Photographs and prints La Chartreuse/CIRCA, Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France
1980 Photographs, “Journey Through an Earthly Paradise” (with Taki Bluesinger) Western Front Gallery, Vancouver
1979 Photographs, “Journey Through an Earthly Paradise” (with Taki Bluesinger) A Space Gallery, Toronto
1979 Prints, “Survival Paradise” Nova Gallery, Vancouver
1978 "Bewilderness, the Origins of Paradise" Vancouver Art Gallery
1975 Collages, “New York Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver Reunion” A Space Gallery, Toronto
1970 Sculpture, “8 Closets” Vancouver Art Gallery
1969 “Wall Graphs” Ace Gallery, Vancouver
1968 Sculptures Douglas Gallery, Vancouver
1965 Ceramics Bau Xi Gallery, Vancouver
Group Exhibitions
2011 "We Give a Shit Because We Care" Unit Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
2011 "Mobilicity" Trench Contemporary Art, Vancouver
2011 "from the collection Unreal" Vancouver Art Gallery
2010–12 “Traffic – Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980,” includes the film installations “Blue Tape Around a City Block” (1969), and “Forest Industry” (1970) Anna Leonowens Gallery, Dalhousie Art Gallery, MSVU Art Gallery and Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Leornard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Vancouver Art Gallery. Catalogue.
2010 “Recipes for an Encounter,” including the video “Japanese Pickle”(1969) Dorsky Gallery / Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY, curated by Berin Golonu & Candice Hopkins.
2010 “to show, to give, to make it be there: Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver: 1954 -1969” Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, curated by Michael Turner. Catalogue.
2009 “Ruins in Process,”
A website as exhibition, on the art in Vancouver in the 60s and 70s
A collaborative project from the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC and grunt gallery, Vancouver.
2007 “The Performed Object: Against a Pathetic Fallacy,” part of LIVE Performance Art Biennale, Vancouver
2005–06 “Intertidal: Vancouver Art & Artists,” includes the film “Blue Tape Around a City Block” MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium, curated by Dieter Roelstrete and Scott Watson. Catalogue.
2004 “Thrown: Influences and Intentions of West Coast ceramics” Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver.
2004 “Eternal Network – Videos From the Western FrontArchives 1973 – 2001” Videographe, Montreal; Video Pool, Winnipeg; Western Front, Vancouver and at a number of locations internationally. Catalogue in English, French and Japanese.
2003 “Test Kitchen,” includes video tape “Chinese Rice Garden” Belkin Satellite, Vancouver.
2002 “New Media, Vancouver Art from the Sixties and Seventies” Gallery, Ceperley House, City of Burnaby. Curated by Glenn Lewis.
2001 “Playing With a Full deck,”
includes a playing card.
grunt gallery, Vancouver
2000 “Canoes: The Shape of Success,” includes a photograph of Marilyn Monroe National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa
2000 “Utopiary,” includes “The Problem of Nature” Burnaby Art Gallery
1999 – 2000 A set of plates for the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, exhibited on Robson St and at the Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver.
1999 “Out of This Century,” Sixties Section, curated by Douglas Coupland Vancouver Art Gallery
1999 “Making it New, The Big Sixties Show,” includes live cow. Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Art Gallery of Windsor. Catalogue.
1999 “Last Tangle in Paris,” mailing invitation for “Canada Trajectories” (1973), curated by Michael Morris and Sharla Sava Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver
1998 “Home Base” Kamloops Art Gallery
1996 “Transient Moments: Vancouver and the Performance Photograph,” includes lent photographs Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver
1996 “The Culture of Nature,” including photographs of Marilyn Monroe. Kamloops Art Gallery
1996 Exhibition of recent acquisitions, including “Tying up the Critics” (1972) Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver
1996 An exhibition of ceramics from the Canada Council Art Bank, City of Ottawa Karsh-Masson Gallery
1995 “Managing: Documents 1967-1974” Art Metropole, Toronto
1995 “World Tea Party” Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver. Curated by Brian Mulvihill, Daniel Dion and Su Schnee.
1995 “Vancouver 1965-1975: Context and Influences” Vancouver Art Gallery
1995 “The Intermedia Society” Art Metropole, Toronto
1994 “64 - 94 Contemporary Decades” Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver. Catalogue.
1993 Group exhibition including edition of six Marilyn Monroe photographs published by Prior Editions, Prior Editions, Vancouver. 1993 “Vancouver Drawing: Working Documents,” includes two collaborations with Zainub Verjee and Brice MacNeil. Artspeak, Vancouver.
1993 “50/50,” a benefit exhibition sale Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
1992 “The Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop,” an exhibition of the prints produced at the Screen Shop in Winnipeg Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina. Catalogue.
1991 “Private Addresses,” an on-site exhibition of installations, including “Application of Development” at various locations in Vancouver, produced by Association of Noncommercial Culture.
1987 “From Sea to Shining Sea,” includes large marble sculpture “Classical Toy Boat” Power Plant, Harbourfont Toronto. Catalogue.
1987 “The Influence of Bernard Leach” Pro Art, St. Louis, Missouri. Catalogue.
1986 “Dog Days” Pitt International Gallery, Vancouver.
1986 “Making History - Recent Art of the Pacific West” Vancouver Art Gallery
1983 “Western Front Archaeology” Western Front, Vancouver
1983 “Museums by Artists” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Musee d'art contemporain, Montreal. Book.
1983 “Art in Vancouver 1931 - 1983” Vancouver Art Gallery. Catalogue.
1983 “October Show” Warehouse on Hamilton St., Vancouver. Catalogue.
1983 “The Growth Years” Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver
1983 “New Works in Holography” A Space, Toronto
1983 “The Great Western Canadian Screen Shop - A Fifteen Year Survey 1968 – 1983” Gallery 1.1.1., School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
1983 Photographic works Shell Gallery, Calgary
1980 – 83 “Paradise/Le Paradis,” Photo Gallery National Film Board, Ottawa; Art Gallery of Peterborough; Canada House Gallery, London; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick; Mount St.Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax; Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal; Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris. Catalogue.
1980 International Mail Art Exhibition Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
1980 Exhibition of Canadian video tapes, including screening of the video “We All Sing the Same Song” Sony Tower Building, Osaka; Zebra House, Sapporo and Tokyo
1980 “Architectural References,” includes the prints “Survival Paradise” Vancouver Art Gallery. Catalogue.
1980 “Yesterday and After / Hier et Apres,” includes installation “Pairidaeza” Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Catalogue.
1983 “Western Front Exhibition” Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart
1983 “Artworks in the Gardens” Royal Botanical Gardens, Art Gallery of Greater Hamilton
1982 “True Dough Rococco” London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario
1981 “Paper Works” Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver
1981 International Federation of Landscape Architects Congress, includes garden photographs and texts UBC, Vancouver
1979 – 81 “Art and Correspondence from the Western Front” Vehicule, Montreal; Confereration Art Centre, Charlottetown; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax; A Space Gallery, Toronto; Art Gallery of Greater Hamilton; Nickel Art Museum, Calgary; Open Space Gallery, Victoria. Catalogue.
1979 Video Free America, includes screening of video “We All Sing the Same Song” San Francisco
1979 Rubber Stamp Exhibition Apropos Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
1979 International Postal Art Exhibition Center/Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1979 Mail art exhibition and book Studio 46 Piergiorgio Firinu, Torino, Italy
1978 – 1979 “Other Realities - The Legacy of Surrealism in Canadian Art” Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario; Canada House Gallery, London; Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris.
1978 Fifth NetworkVideo Conference, includes screening of the video “We All Sing the Same Song” Toronto
1978 Malaspina Print Exhibition Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
1978 “The Human Image” The Artist’s Gallery, Vancouver
1978 “Input, First International Public Television Screening Conference,” includes screening of the video “We All Sing the Same Song” Milan
1978 “Rolling Landscape Show” T.T.C. Subway car no. 5780, Nightingale Arts Council, Toronto
1977 Western Front group show Open Space, Victoria
1977 Western Front/Pumps exchange exhibition Pumps, Vancouver
1977 Vancouver Art Gallery Extension Department B.C. travelling exhibition from the civic collection.
1976 “West Coast Waves” Winnipeg Art Gallery
1976 “Celebration of the Body,” organized by the N.E. Thing Co. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
1976 “The Last Correspondence Show” California State University Art Department, Sacramento, California
1976 “Canadada Postcards” University of Manitoba Gallery, Winnipeg
1976 “Bated Breath” Fine Arts Gallery, UBC, Vancouver
1976 “International Postcard Show” Arizona State University Art Department Gallery, Tempe, Arizona
1975 “B.C. Sculptors” Vancouver Art Gallery. Travelling exhibition.
1975 “A Pictorial History of the World” Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute
1975 “Current Energies - British Columbia 75” Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal
1975 “Chairs” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1974 “Open Encounter on Video” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Place Cardin, Paris
1974 “Image Bank Postcard Show” and/or Gallery, Seattle
1974 “Project 74,” includes screening of the video “Hollywood Decca Dance” Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany
1974 “Artists of the Stamps” Simon Fraser University Art Gallery, Vancouver
1974 “Surfacing on the Subliminal,” includes material from Hollywood Decca Dance Western Front, Vancouver
1973 “Traces” Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C.
1973 “Canada Trajectoires 73,” includes N.Y. Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver material from correspondence art event Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris. Catalogue.
1972 “Art Probe,” includes books of material from New Era Social Club Vancouver Art Gallery
1971 “Image Bank Postcard Show,” includes one card and two others in collaboration with Michael Morris Fine Arts Gallery, UBC, Vancouver
1970 “B.C. Almanack” National Film Board, Ottawa. Book.
1970 “Realisms,” includes live cow, in collaboration with Michael Morris Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
1970 “Art in the Mind” Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio.
1970 “Intermedia Exhibition & 9 Evenings of Performances” Vancouver Art Gallery
1969 “Intermedia Sculpture Exhibition” Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1969 “New Art of Vancouver 1969” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Balboa, California; Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara. Catalogue.
1969 “Intermedia Exhibition - Electrical Connection” Vancouver Art Gallery
1969 “Six Man Show” Douglas Gallery, Vancouver
1969 “Across the Border” Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
1968 “Younger Vancouver Sculptors” Fine Arts Gallery, UBC, Vancouver
1968 “Younger Vancouver Cross Section 68” Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1968 “Winnipeg Annual” Winnipeg Art Gallery
1968 “Canadian Artists 68” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Catalogue.
1968 “Spectrum 68” Vancouver Art Gallery
1967 “B.C. 67” Vancouver Art Gallery
1967 “Vancouver 5” Isaacs Gallery, Toronto
1967 “Perspective 67” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1967 “Joy and Celebration” Fine Arts Gallery, UBC, Vancouver
1967 “Birth and Rebirth of Objects” Fine Arts Gallery, UBC, Vancouver
1967 Canadian Pavilion, Expo 67 Montreal
1966–67 “Crafts” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Commissions
1973 "Great Wall of 1984" National Science Library, Ottawa
1972 Public sculpture, "R. Mutt" City of Vancouver
1970 Sculptural wall mural, "Artifact" Canadian Pavilion, Expo 70, Osaka, Japan (acquired by Vancouver Art Gallery)
Publications
2009 Book, “Seeking the Nuance: Glaze Experiments of the 60s and 70s from the Ceramic Studios of UBC”
Potter’s Guild of BC, 45 pages
2002 Essay, "Pandora's Box: New Media Art from the 60s and 70s in Vancouver"
in catalogue, Visual Arts Burnaby / Gallery at Ceperley House, Burnaby, BC
2001 Section, “Fragrant Plants”, in “A Growers Choice” by Michael K. Lascelle Raincoast Books, Vancouver, pp 260 – 263.
2000 'Live at the End of the Century'
Essay (Mondo Artie script) on 60's, 70's performance in Vancouver for book
on performance art
grunt gallery, Vancouver.
1993 Assistance with editing, "Whispered Art History Twenty Years at the Western Front"
Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver
1987 Editor with Annette Hurtig of B.C. section of "From Sea to Shining Sea" catalogue, Power Plant, Harbourfront, Toronto.
1986 Exhibition essay and notes on 8 artists, “New Video Realities"
Canadian Exhibition, Cologne Art Fair.
1985 Article and photos, "The Mythological Design of the Garden Path"
Section A magazine, Toronto, August 85, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 37 - 39.
1983 Three articles on gardens and colour photos Ville Giardini magazine, October, November and December, 1983 issues, Electa Periodici, Milan, Italy.
1982 Article and photos, "Shrub Art - The Enchanted World of Topiary" Western Living magazine, Vancouver, May, 1982, pp. 74-75.
1981 Article, “The Japanese Connection”, illust. Interface Magazine, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, vol.4, no.11, Dec.81, pp. 26-29
1980 “Living Art Performance” catalogue
Co-editor with Paul Wong and Kim Tomzck,
Vancouver, Western Front Publication, 90 pages
1979 “Provincial Arts Fundng Study” for ANNPAC
Wrote research questionaire
1979 Article and photos , “Gardens Enchanted”
Vancouver Magazine, June issue
1979 "Art and Correspondence From the Western Front"
Editor and designer of catalogue for exhibition
Western Front publication Vancouver.
1979 Section entitled "Performance Notes From the Western Front" of book, "Performance by Artists" Art Metropole, Toronto, pp. 270 -287.
1979 Section entitled, Western Front Mythology” Unmuzzled Ox, “The Poet’s Encyclodedia”, Vol. 1V, no. 1V/Vol.V, pp. 281-285
1978 Interview, “Glenn Lewis Interviews Dennis Tourbin”
Calgary, Centerfold, Vol.3, no.1, Dec 78, pp. 33-39
1978 Text and photos, catalogue for exhibition, "Bewilderness - The Origins of Paradise"
Vancouver Art Gallery, 64 pages.
1978 Text, "Journey Through an Earthly Paradise"
Impressions Magazine monograph, Toronto, photos by Taki Bluesinger, 34 pages.
1978 Article, “The Value of Parallel Galleries”
Parallelogramme, March
1977 Postcard, "Image Bank Postcard Show"
Image Bank, Vancouver.
1975 Text and illustrations, "Notes From the Little Hot Stove League, New Era Social Club"
Is 17 journal, Eternal Network Press, Toronto.
1975 Editor of script, "Mondo Artie, Episode #1681, Art's Birthday and the Hollywood Deccadance"
Eternal Network Press, Toronto.
1974 Script, “Mondo Artie Episode #1625”
part of Image Bank section in Source Magazine, issue #11, Sacreamento, Ca.
1974 Script, Mondo Artie Episode #1681, Art’s Birthday and the Hollywood Decca Dance
part of an exhibition package, Western Front Publication, Vancouver
1974 Script, “Mondo Artie, Dissolve or Perish, the Von Bonin Dinner”
Fanzini Magazine, “Fanzini Goes to the Movies”, Vancouver
1973 Edition of 25 slides on topiary Environmental Communications, Venice, Ca.
1973 Two microfiche cards, “Topiary” and “Artist’s Recipes"
Coach House Press, Toronto
1972 73 Various written pieces and photographs File Magazine, Toronto
1972 Several articles on food B.C. Monthly Magazine
1972 Section on New Era Social Club IS 13 Journal, Coach House Press, Toronto for "Image Bank Postcard Show", Coach House Press, Toronto.
1970 Section entitled, "Seashells in the Forest at Storm Bay With Bedroom"
photographic publication, "B.C. Almanack", National Film Board, Ottawa.
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1977 d'Or, Vic. “Interview with Glenn Lewis.” Only Paper Today, December 1977, 9-11.
1975 Shere, Charles. “Four Days in Vancouver and Victoria.” Artscanada 196/197 (March 1975): 17-28.
1974 Coleman, Victor. Only Paper Today, Vol. 2, no. 3 (November 1974). Interview with Glenn Lewis.
1974 Douglas, Richardson. “National Science Library, Ottawa.” Artscanada 190/191 (Autumn 1974): 58, 59, 64.
1974 Subtle, Susan. “Their Art Belongs to Dada.” Esquire, August, 1974, 53.
1974 Vermette, Luce. “Les Arts a la Bibliotheque Scientifique Nationale.” Vie des Arts 75, Vol. 19, (Summer 1974): 82-83.
On “Great Wall of 1984” mural.
1974 Lowndes, Joan. “City by Mural.” Vancouver Sun, March 8, 1974, 13A.
On "Vancouver" mural project.
1974 Lowndes, Joan. “Little Boxes … but they don’t look just the same.” Vancouver Sun, March 5, 1974, 35.
On National Science Library mural.
1974 Bentley Mays, John. “Ottawa Notebook.” Proof Only, February 22, 1974. Review of mural at National Science Library.
1974 Kritzwiser, Kay. “Think Tulips Instead of Banks of Snow.” Globe and Mail, February 16, 1974, 29. Review of National Science Library mural.
1974 Lowndes, Joan. “Look closely! The art objects go poof.” Vancouver Sun, February 13, 1974, 47. Review of faculty exhibition at Fine Arts Gallery, UBC.
1974 Laliberte, Normand and Alex Mogelon. “Art in Boxes.” Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinholt, 1974, 187, 191, 211.
1973 Bear, Liza and Willoughby Sharp. “Business as Usual at the Western Front.” Avalanche Magazine, Summer/Fall, 1973, 34-39.
1973 Nicolson, Annabel. “Canadada Fragments.” Art and Artists, April, 1973, 29-33.
1972 d’Or, Vic. “The Summer of ’72 The Springing of 1984” Artscanada 174/175, (December/January 1972): 65. On IS. magazine and “Great Wall of 1984.”
1971 Lowndes, Joan. “Sculptor uses gallery for homecoming party.” Vancouver Sun, September 17, 1971, 29.
1971 Lord, Barry. “BC Almanac (H) C-B – At the Photo Gallery of the National Film Board, Ottawa November 1970–January 1971.” Artscanada 152/153 (February/March 1971): 42-45.
1970 Lowndes, Joan. “Lewis’ Forest Industry film a hypnotic experience.” Vancouver Sun, July 3, 1970, 23, 10A. Review of “Forest Industry.”
1970 Simmins, Richard and Michael deCourcy. “8 Closets.” Artscanada 144/145, (June 1970): 35.
1970 Lord, Barry. “The Eleven O'Clock News in Colour.” Artscanada 144/145 (June 1970): 4-9.
1970 Wasserman, Jack. Vancouver Sun, June 1970, 25. Review of “8 Closets” exhibition.
1970 Lowndes, Joan. “Falk, Lewis sculptures keep gallery in touch.”Vancouver Sun, June 18, 1970, 41.
1970 Capper, Ann. “Gisele: 13,000 pounds of art.” Montreal Gazette, May 8, 1970, 1, 3.
1970 Engledink. “Let it Bleed – World worried wart, says Engledink… Intermedia co-opts Yippies Vancouver artist given blushe's rush at Osaka.” Georgia Straight, May 27–June 3, 1970, 7.
1970 Selz, Peter with Alvin Balkind. “Vancouver: Scene and Unscene: A Conceit in Eight Scenes and an Epilogue.” Art in America 1, Vol. 58, (January/February 1970): 123-126.
1970 Townsend, Charlotte. “Art and Building do Relate – It doesn't often happen but it will at Expo 70.” Vancouver Sun, January 30, 1970, 8A. On mural for Canadian Pavilion, Expo '70.
1969 Ginsburg, Susan. “The New Art of Vancouver Newport Harbor Art Museum Newport California. October-November, 1969.” Artscanada 138/139 (December 1969): 56-57.
1969 Lowndes, Joan. “Madness flavors breakfast opening of the Lewis show.” The Province, December 1, 1969, 23.
1969 Townsend, Charlotte. “We Call on Glenn Lewis.” Vancouver Sun, November 21, 1969, 5A. On Expo '70 and The New Art of Vancouver, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA.
1969 Garver, Thomas. New Art of Vancouver. Newport: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1969.
1969 Vancouver Sun, July 21, 1969, 29. Photos of “Floor Piece,” Vancouver Art Gallery.
1969 Johnson, Eileen. “Four Mordant Views Beyond the Funsy Side of Life.” The Province, July 4, 1969, 25. On “Flower Piece,” Vancouver Art Gallery.
1969 Lowndes, Joan. “The new art of Vancouver is getting abroad.” The Province, June 6, 1969, 8.
1969 Barber, James. “Smell of Boredom Is Unmistakable.” The Province, April 3, 1969, 46.
1969 Wall, Jeffrey. “A Show That Poses The Phenomenon of Taste.” The Province, January 24, 1969, 13. Review of group exhibition at Douglas Gallery.
1968 “For These People, 1968 Was A Very Good Year.” Vancouver Sun, December 27, 1968, 4A.
1968 Rosenberg, Ann. “About Art…” Vancouver Sun, October 25, 1968, 9A. Review of “Younger Vancouver Sculptors” at Fine Arts Gallery, UBC.
1968 Lowndes, Joan. “The New Sculpture – a world of smooth plexiglass and readymades and Baxterised wit.” The Province, October 25, 1968, 12. Review of “Younger Vancouver Sculptors” at Fine Arts Gallery, UBC.
1968 Lowndes, Joan. “Mixed bag of prizes reveals a new talent.” The Province, September 30, 1968. Review of “Spectrum 68.”
1968 Rosenberg, Ann. “Juror Turns Gallery Dotty.” Vancouver Sun, September 26, 1968, 42. Review of “Spectrum 68”.
1968 Lowndes, Joan. “Spectrum happening 'turns on' a juror.” Vancouver Province, September 25, 1968, 30. Review of “Spectrum 68”.
1968 Pinney, Marguerite. “Glenn Lewis - The Douglas Gallery.” Artscanada 120/121 (August 1968): 33-34.
1968 Rosenberg, Ann. “About Art... Good Group Art Shows on Wane in Vancouver?” Vancouver Sun, August 2, 1968, 8A. Review of Douglas Gallery exhibition.