Tau Lewis
 | A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. (May 2021) |
Tau Lewis (born 1993 in Toronto, Ontario)[1][2] is a Canadian artist working in a variety of mediums including hand-sewn, carved and assemblage pieces.
Artwork
Lewis currently works with soft materials such as fabric scraps. She uses recycling because it is circular and has roots in her ancestry.[3] In Lewis's most recent work “The T.A.U.B.I.S.” she uses a range of materials from recycled and hand dyed fabrics, recycled leather, cotton batting, beads, acrylic paint, PVA, glue, metal hoop skirt, and pipes, to sea shells.[4][5] In Lewis's twelve-foot-long quilt (the sighting of the last shadow dweller (original sea kin)) the quilt is stitched together using materials such as leather and reclaimed fabric to evoke aquatic systems. The various materials used are stitched together irregularly with no uniform shape or pattern reminiscent of the flowing of water. When examined up close elements of the body emerge from the quilt the fragments of the body act as elements of DNA in the work. Lewis's use of reclaimed scraps and materials connects with histories of resourcefulness and is environmentally conscious.[6] Lewis's earlier work used materials such as “wood, scrap metal, cement, wire, plaster, stones, paint cans, chains and rebar, her latest work relaxes further into fabric.”[3] Using the globally sourced materials she creates a sense of community and ancestry in the work.[5]
In 2018, Lewis was awarded the Frieze Frame Stand Prize for her solo presentation with Cooper Cole Gallery at Frieze New York City, USA.[7]
Tau Lewis is represented by Night Gallery, Los Angeles,[8] and Stephen Freidman Gallery, London, UK.[9]
Exhibitions
In 2018, Lewis had her first institutional solo exhibition in Canada in the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.[1] In 2021 Lewis' sculpture "Symphony" was exhibited in the Rotunda of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa as part of its Contemporary Projects series.[10]
References
- ^ a b "Tau Lewis: when last you found me here". Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ "Tau Lewis". The Hepworth Wakefield. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Groundations". Canadian art.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Tau Lewis at COOPER COLE". Art viewer.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Suspended Blossoms and Patchwork Characters Imagine a Pastel Universe of Overabundance". Colossal. 30 November 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Tau Lewis: I Bet This Cave Has Been Here for a Really Long Time". The Brooklyn Rail. 11 December 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "A Conversation with Tau Lewis".
- ^ "NIGHT GALLERY TO REPRESENT TAU LEWIS".
- ^ "Latest News in Black Art: Tau Lewis Joins Stephen Friedman Gallery, Christopher Blay Named Chief Curator at Houston African American Museum, Housing Gallery Receives Armory Show's Gramercy International Prize". 25 July 2021.
- ^ "Tau Lewis: Symphony". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
External links
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Artists | |
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Artists from Toronto
- Canadian women sculptors
- Feminist artists
- Canadian contemporary artists
- Contemporary sculptors
- Queer artists
- Queer feminists
- Canadian people of Jamaican descent
- LGBT artists from Canada
- Black Canadian women
- Black Canadian LGBT people
- Black Canadian artists
- 21st-century Canadian women artists