Virtual Studio Tours are 30 min interactive programs that explore local contemporary artist studios. Artists take viewers behind the scenes of their studio practice with insights into their processes, inspirations and artwork.

Fitz Joseph Lewis (b. 1983, Mark Joseph Fitzsimmons, Kansas City, Mo.) is a Denver  based interdisciplinary artist working with the concepts surrounding social performance  that requires the suffering of others to be maintained. Lewis works with recognizable  symbols and objects to ask what is more important: Our objects and symbols or the  people and concepts they represent. Seeing a distinct connection to their upbringing and systems of oppression, their work is an effort to deconstruct the aspirational ideals  that were violently instilled within them. An artist that went to the military rather than one  that comes from it, they bring their intimate knowledge of violence to object making and  performance. Lewis was Honorably Discharged from the Army in 2014, holds a BFA  from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Fine Art - Painting, and an MFA  from the University of Kansas in Expanded Media.

Image credit: Experiment 8 (detail), 2020, barbed wire and found wood, 5x8x3.5 in, courtesy of the artist.

Hosted at 12pm on BMoCA’s Instagram!

How to access
To access the Virtual Studio Tours live, log into your Instagram account on the phone app or from a web browser, then navigate to BMoCA’s profile and click on the circular icon with BMoCA’s logo.

To access the Virtual Studio Tours after they air, log into your Instagram account on the phone app or from a web browser, then navigate to BMoCA’s profile. Click on the tab for BMoCA’s IGTV and select the Virtual Studio Tour you wish to view.