Lewis Colburn

A Fountain for a Dark Future

Sculpture 2019-present

Disposable Monument II (After The Boys Who Wore Gray), 2021. Polymer modified gypsum, graphite, aluminum, polypropylene, nylon, brass, cherry and pine. 60” x 84” x 53”

Disposable Monument II (After The Boys Who Wore Gray)

The Best of All Possible Worlds

A Film for the Theatre/A Theatre for the Film, 2018. 12’ x 14’ x 8’  Fiberglass-reinforced plaster, wood, steel, aluminum and cast urethane.

A Film for the Theatre/A Theatre for the Film

A Souvenir of the Minnesota State Fair, 1910 (Butter Roosevelt)

First of four photographs from Disposable Monuments , 2018. Inkjet print, 16” x 24”

Disposable Monuments

The Only Extant Copy, 2016. Salvaged pine, oak and poplar, plywood, epoxy resin and aluminum. 65” x 60” x 36”

Scenes for Empty Rooms

Detail of And Through These Gathered Objects , 2016.

Early America

Eight Dead White Men I Found on the Internet and Two Averages , 2017. Engineered wood products, pine, oak, and poplar.  Dimensions variable, this configuration 20” x 144” x 10.” The work consists of eight busts, digitally fabricated from 3D s

A State of Permanent Discontent

Detail of Untitled (Set for a Homestead),  as installed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. This work was produced for the exhibition HERE .

Untitled (Set for a Homestead)

Photograph from The Practical Romantic , 2010. Inkjet print, 40” x 30.”

The Practical Romantic

Interregnum (1815-1969) 2009. Poplar, steel, plywood, enamels and mixed media. Dimensions variable, carriage 8’ x 17’ x 6’

Interregnum (1815-1969)

Re-staged photograph from the project. Inkjet print, 16" x 16"

The Inspection Stations Project

Centennial (American Still Life) , 2013. Pine, cherry, plaster, wool, linen, aluminum, polycarbonate, latex paint and found objects. 50” x 50” x 24”

Sculpture 2010-2019

Untitled (Traveler) 2008. Inkjet print, 20” x 20”

Photo Projects 2007-2011