Georgina Lewis
Georgina Lewis's sound, sculpture, photography, and drawing have been presented at the Visual Studies Workshop, National University of Ireland, REDCAT in Los Angeles, FILE Brazil, The Photographic Resource Center, GASP, Axiom, and Art Interactive among others. She is the recipient of awards and residencies from the Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Council for the Arts at MIT. She received her MFA from Bard College and holds undergraduate degrees from Franklin and Marshall College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She lives and works in Boston. Additional information may be found at http://www.birdfur.com
I make small objects and large sounds in an ongoing quest to determine the truth of the world around me. The confluence of the human, animal, and machine worlds is of particular interest to me and I use simple materials such as plaster, photographs, and human speech to examine these intersections. Conceptual and formal issues are of equal concern to me. My process involves a set of ongoing negotiations between intuitive responses to my materials and systematized frameworks laid well in advance.
I am drawn to points of slippage. I rephotograph photographs. I process speech to the point abstraction: delineating the stages at which language starts to break down and become just a sound, with formal, but no longer linguistic, significance. I meticulously repaint wood grain. I’m trying both to change and to maintain; to evoke mimesis and mutation, to insert myself at that ever changing juncture which is both the present and the future. I do so with a mix of humor, pathos, and fascination.
