Corin Hewitt
dal 3/10/2008 al 3/1/2009
Segnalato da
3/10/2008
Corin Hewitt
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Seed Stage, an installation merging performance art, live theater, and an investigation of ideas about still life. During 3 months, the gallery space will be in constant flux with the artist engaged in the creation of his work. Hewitt manipulates materials, both homegrown and store-bought, questioning notions of what constitutes the art object through a process of constant transmutation.
This fall, the artist Corin Hewitt takes up occupancy
in the Whitney’s Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Lobby Gallery for Seed Stage, an
installation merging performance art, live theater, and an investigation of ideas
about still life. Redefining the notion of the artist-in-residence, Hewitt physically
moves about the Whitney’s Lobby Gallery space for a period of three months and
one day, from October 4, 2008, through January 4, 2009. During this time, the
gallery space will be in constant flux with the artist engaged in the creation of a
work that is at once an environment and a performance. Hewitt manipulates
materials, both homegrown and store-bought, questioning notions of what
constitutes the art object through a process of constant transmutation. This is
Hewitt’s first one-person exhibition at the Whitney.
Tina Kukielski, senior curatorial assistant at the Whitney and organizer of the
exhibition, notes: “Hewitt’s methods include cooking, sculpting, heating and cooling,
casting, canning, eating, and photographing both organic and inorganic materials.
The result is an intimate examination of the cycles of transformation and
transience.”
About the Artist
Corin Hewitt lives and works in Brooklyn. Born in 1971, in Burlington, Vermont, he
received his MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College (2007),
his BA from Oberlin College (1993) and attended the Staatliche Akademie der
Bildenden Kunste, Karlsruhe, Germany (1996) and Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture, Maine (2004). Recent solo exhibitions of Hewitt’s work have taken place
at Taxter and Spengemann Gallery in New York, and at Small A Projects in Portland,
Oregon. His Public Art Fund project, Legacy, shown in 2005-2006, was a 21-foot-
long rainbow made of cast street sweepings emerging from a planter at the
MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn. The sweepings were cast from actual
debris collected on seven consecutive days by the city’s street sweeping machines:
dirt, grit, gravel, gum wrappers, bottle caps, socks, plastic combs, and whatever
other litter the sweeper picked up during the course of a day. His work was included
in “New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography” at the Whitney in late 2005. Hewitt
has an upcoming solo exhibition of his photography at the Seattle Museum of Art in
the spring of 2009.
Image: Installation view from Weavings: Performance #2 (Portland, OR), 2007. Photograph by Dan Kvitka
Press Contact:
Whitney Museum of American Art
Stephen Soba, Leily Soleimani 212-570-3633 pressoffice@whitney.org
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art:
Paul McCarthy: Three Installations, Two Films Through October 12, 2008
“Progress” Through November 30, 2008
Signs of the Time Opens September 19, 2008
Between the Still and Moving Image October 1-November 30, 2008
Corin Hewitt: Seed Stage October 4, 2008-January 4, 2009
Alexander Calder: The Paris Years October 16, 2008-February 15, 2009
William Eggleston November 7, 2008-January 25, 2009
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