BIO
Phillip Andrew Lewis
b.1973, Memphis, TN (USA)
Phillip Andrew Lewis is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, objects, digital media, video, sound and installation. Phillip often connects his creative work with historical events, science and the experience of artificial worlds. His work revolves around the investigation of light, sound, space, and time; studying drone, repetition, vibrations, and the subsequent patterns that emerge. He incorporates a site-sensitive approach to constructing environments with a constant and dominating tone or mood; presenting atmospheres for mental and physical navigation. His work tends to hover on the edge of perceptibility, exposing the limits of what can be measured. Using a variety of tools, he examines the moment between the visible and invisible, sound and silence, material and immaterial.
Phillip has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of the 2008 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission, 2008 Public Art Grant from the UrbanArt Commission, 2008 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward, 2009 Terminal Award, and 2011 MakeWork Grant. In 2005,Phillip co-founded Medicine Factory, an independent arts organization in downtown Memphis committed to supporting installation-based works. He currently teaches and heads the photography and media program at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga.
CURRICULUM VITAE [click to download pdf}
EDUCATION
1998 - 2000 Master of Fine Arts, Memphis College of Art (USA)
1992 - 1996 Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, University of Memphis (USA)
1995 Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
EXHIBITIONS
2011 Medium Anxiety, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Main x24, Chattanooga, TN
Faculty Biennial 2011, Cress Gallery, UTC, Chattanooga, TN
STENDEC, Art Museum at University of Museum, Memphis, TN
2010 SoundLab 2010, Le Musee di-visioniste, Cologne, Germany
Sonic Orphans, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Water Vision, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
Markers, Art Of This Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Jukebox, Soundfjord, London, England
Menomonie, ACPL Space, University of Wisconsin, Stout, WI
SIX, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
Recent Discoveries In Science, Doctor’s Building, Chattanooga, TN
Plot, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
The Last of the Fugitives, The Banff Center, Banff, Canada
Filmbase + Solus Collective, Dublin, Ireland
MVMA Festival, Marfa, TX
Colab, Austin, TX
2009 Set, Fort Point Art Center, Boston, MA
Nowcasting, Carlos Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Faculty Biennial 2009, Cress Gallery, UTC, Chattanooga, TN
Upgrade! Tennessee, Trahern Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Accumulate Us, Galerie VORD, Cologne, Germany
TEH, Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Fugitive Video Project 2009, Fugitive Projects International Traveling Video Program
2008 Density, Butler Institute of American Art, Trumbull, Howland, OH
From Red Paint Hill, Terminal Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Interactions/Interruptions, UrbanArt Commission, Memphis, TN
2007 Romanticism Restaged, School of Photographic Arts & Sciences Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, Curator: Therese Mulligan
Light to Spare, SPACES GALLERY, Cleveland, OH
Simple Truths, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Curator: Les Christensen
Emerging Video Artists, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN (catalog)
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, NY
Forte, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
Perspectives, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, Curator: Michael Rooks
The Price of Everything, The Art Gallery at City University of New York
In the presence of nothing, ArtLab, Art Museum University of Memphis
2006 mFAC 001, Medicine Factory, Memphis, TN
2004 Jan Groth’s Samling, Rogalund Museum of Fine Art, Stavanger, Norway (catalog)
2003 Andromeda, Second Floor Contemporary, Memphis, TN
Winter Exhibition, Second Floor Contemporary, Memphis, TN
2002 In Celebration of Spring: The Contemporary Landscape, Delta Axis Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN
Curator: Hamlett Dobbins
STARE: Photographic Survey, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, Curator: Trudy Wilner-Stack
2001 MAX: 2001, All About Paint, Art Museum University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, Curator: Holly Block, Art in General, NYC (catalog)
Venus, Second Floor Contemporary, Memphis, TN
Indie Memphis Film Showcase, official selection for experimental short film
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Norway
Memphis College of Art, TN
McDonough Museum of Art, OH
UrbanArt Commission, TN
Butler Institute of American Art, OH
Austin Peay State University, TN
New Media Art Project Network, Cologne, Germany
Soundfjord, London, England
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010- present Co-Director, Apothecary Contemporary Art (www.apothecaryproject.com)
2008- present Assistant Professor of Art, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
2007- 2008 Assistant Professor of Art, Youngstown State University
2005- 2010 Director & Co-Founder, Medicine Factory (www.medicinefactory.org)
2001-2004 Assistant Professor of Art, Rhodes College
HONORS & AWARDS
2012 Creative Capital Project Grant
2011 University of Chattanooga Foundation Professorship Award
MakeWork Project Grant, CreateHere, Lyndhurst Foundation
Faculty Research Grant, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
2010 Speakers & Special Events Grant, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
2009 Instructional Excellence Grant, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Lyndhurst Foundation Grant, Curatorial Research, Polymer Exhibition and Program
Library Enhancement Initiative Grant, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
2008 Faculty Development Grant, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
UC Foundation Strategic Initiative Grant, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Terminal Award, Web Art Commission, Austin Peay State University
Public Art Grant, Urban Art Commission, Memphis, TN
Honorable Mention, Flash Forward 2008, Magenta Foundation
2007 Individual Artist Fellowship 2008, Tennessee Arts Commission
Juror: Joseph Grigley, artist, critic & educator School of Art Institute Chicago
Artist Honorarium, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Finalist, Deer Valley Public Art Project, Phoenix Arts Commission
Visiting Artist/Critic, Honorarium, Rhodes College
Artist Honorarium, Art Museum at University of Memphis
2003 Hill Grant Competitive Grant for Academic Advancement, Rhodes College
Visiting Artist, Memphis College of Art
2000 Presidential Purchase Award, Memphis College of Art
Academic Achievement Award, Memphis College of Art (4.0 Cumulative GPA)
1999 Emerging Artist Grant, Memphis Arts Council
Public Art Honorarium, Memphis College of Art
LECTURES
2010 Visiting Artist’s Lecture, Welch School of Art & Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta
Set, Visiting Artist’s Lecture, Western Kentucky University
2009 Plot, Artist’s Lecture, Fort Point Arts Center, Boston
Nowcasting, Visiting Artist’s Lecture, University of the South
Seeing Beyond Photographic, Guest Lecture, Photographic Society of Chattanooga
Time as Art: cameras, metronomes & fax machines, ArtSpeak Series, Association for Visual Arts
2008 Clear as Day, Visiting Artist’s Lecture, University of Iowa
Mutable Landscape, Visiting Artist’s Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University
Terminal, Visiting Artist’s Lecture, Austin Peay State University
Integrating Digital into the Curriculum, Panel Presentation, SPE Regional Conference
Visiting Artist’s Lecture, Ohio University, OH
Visiting Artist’s Lecture, University of Houston, TX
Visiting Artist’s Lecture, Monmouth University, NJ
2007 On Air, Artist’s Lecture, McDonough Museum of Art
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Phillip Andrew Lewis, “SAMPLING: Tetrahedron+Sugar-free Packaging+Dada Hero+Upgrade!,” Number Magazine, No. 65
2009 Marci Weber, “TEH,” Purple Magazine, Oct 2009, p.33
2008 Flash Forward 2008: Emerging Photographers from Canada, the United Kingdom, & the United States, foreword by Andrea Carson, images on p. 180, ISBN 978-0-9739739
2007 Dan Tranberg, “Spaces exhibit focuses on light,” The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Dec 28
Douglas Max Utter, “Wrinkles in Time,” Cleveland Free Time, Nov 21-27
Zachary Lewis, “Light to Spare Review,” Cleveland Scene, Nov 21
Susan Knowles, “Perspectives,” ART PAPERS, 31:06 Nov/Dec 2007
Fredric Koeppel, “Geography Blurs the Lines in Art,” The Commercial Appeal, July 27
Carol Knowles, “Wild Abandon,” Memphis Flyer, Issue #959
Fredric Koeppel, “Site-Specific and Sensitive,” The Commercial Appeal, March 2, p.34-35
2006 Andria Lisle, “Artists can experiment with their craft at offbeat Medicine Factory,” Memphis Business Journal, November, p.37
Leslie Luebbers, “Editorial No. 56,” Number Magazine, No.56
Chris Davis, “Renovation Generation,” Memphis Magazine, August, p.74
Fredric Koeppel, “Freedom of Expression,” The Commercial Appeal, March 31, p.28
2004 Samling, foreword by Karin Hellandsjo, images reproduced on p. 41, ISBN 82-992559-6-1
2003 Hamlett Dobbins, “Interview with Phillip Andrew Lewis,” Number Magazine, No. 46
Fredric Koeppel, “Two Photo Exhibits Put Focus On Light,” The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, June 1, Section F, p.4
Chris Davis, “Little Green Anthropologists,” The Memphis Flyer, Memphis, June 12-18, p. 27
2001 Deborah Elliot, “Painting Over The Edge,” The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, June 24,
Section G, p.1-2
David Hall, “Tutti Frutti,” The Memphis Flyer, Memphis, June 7-13, p.40,42
Suzanne Riker, “To the MAX,” The Memphis Business Journal, May 18-24, p.41-2
Hamlett Dobbins, “The Article I Wish I’d Written > or The Fade,” Gamut Magazine, May, p.25-6
David Hall, “Picture This,” The Memphis Flyer, April 19-25, p. 59, 75
1999 Michael Donahue, “Just Beachy,” The Commercial Appeal, March 1, Section C, p.7