above: 85 Union Street, mixed-media installation, 2004
Oberlin Alumnus Corin Hewitt is having a show at Seattle Art Museum’s downtown SAM space. Corin Hewitt is the featured Next artist, a program designed to expose the public to up-and-coming artists who are still under-represented. Hewitt works in photography, sculpture and performance and recently had a show at the Whitney where he performed and installed a piece called Seed Stage. During this performance Hewitt used a variety of materials which he processed in a variety of ways, from casting to canning to eating or sculpting. The SAM exhibition features a collection of photographs taken from a performance piece exhibited at a gallery in Portland, Oregon. The Portland performance piece included still-lifes of organic and inorganic objects which the artist photographed as they decayed and changed. The body of work, called Weavings: Performance #2 (Portland, Oregon) will be on display at SAM until October 18th. Corin Hewitt is represented by Taxter and Spengemann Gallery in New York.
