LIMITED EDITION PRINT: "Untitled (Structures)" by Leslie Hewitt

Now available from the Light Work 2015 Fine Print Program:

Leslie Hewitt (in collaboration with cinematographer Bradford Young)

Untitled (Structures), 2012

Production still, courtesy of the artists and Lucien Terras Inc.

Archival inkjet print, 6.75x9” on 8x10” paper

Shipped in a 14x18” mat

Edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist

$300

Leslie Hewitt is an artist living in New York City. With her work in photography and other media, she tries to restructure pieces of American history by inserting people, things, and icons forgotten by the times and gives them new purpose in the present. Hewitt graduated from The Cooper Union’s School of Art in 2000 and went on to earn an MFA from Yale University in 2004. Her work is in the public collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, the Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, among others. Hewitt was represented in the Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography 2009, a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of the medium. Hewitt participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in July 2009.

Light Work, an artist-run, non-profit organization, has been supporting emerging and under-recognized artists working in photography since 1973.

Purchase Leslie Hewitt's signed and numbered original print from Light Work's exclusive 2015 program here.

BESTOWED: Tiffany Foundation 2013 Biennial Grants

Steffani Jeminson, Untitled (Projection X), 2013, Inkjet print on acetate, gesso, hardware, and custom panel, 24 x 36 x 1 1/2 inches. Image via louistiffanyfoundation.org.

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation disburses $600,000 in awards to American contemporary artists

In June 2014, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation presented thirty unrestricted grants, each in the amount of $20,000, to American artists working in painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, video, craft and multimedia. Recipients were chosen from a poll of 137 nominees proposed by the Foundation’s trustees, artists, critics, and museum professionals throughout the United States. Submissions by the nominees were reviewed by a seven-member jury. Winners were selected for their talent and individual artistic strength. It is the intention of the Foundation to support artists whose work shows promise, but who have not yet received widespread critical acclaim or commercial recognition.

Among the 2013 recipients are:

Leslie Hewitt

Steffani Jemison

Simone Leigh 
Steve Locke

Jacolby Satterwhite

Shinique Smith

A full list of winners and online catalogue with images, biographies and streaming video samples is available at:  http://louiscomforttiffanyfoundation.org/

The Foundation has published a full-color 84-page catalogue documenting the award recipients’ work.

Established in 1918, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation remains one of the largest single sources of unrestricted monetary awards to artists. The present Biennial Competition, a format established in 1980, has over the years granted $8,534,00 in awards to 441 artists nationwide.

NEW YORK: Leslie Hewitt

Image via sikkemajenkinsco.com.

September 3 – October 5, 2013

Opening reception: Thursday, September 12, 2013,  6-8PM

SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO.

530 West 22^nd Street

New York, NY

Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Leslie Hewitt, her first solo show with the gallery, on view from September 3 through October 5, 2013.

Leslie Hewitt uses the language of photography to interrogate the function of memory by calling to attention the displacement in time and location that occurs in its realm. This has led Hewitt to think about how we process images, even as the photograph continues to dematerialize. Curator Randi Hopkins notes: “By viewing the photograph both as an object and as an image, Hewitt is able to explore the sculptural weight and portable nature of the photograph, and to address the fact that we encounter photographs transported in time as well as in space. A photograph always documents the past, and also always exists displaced from the location it represents, yet it maintains an indexical relationship to the time and place of its origin – points to it, is inextricably tied to it.”

The current exhibition positions distinct bodies of works – Riffs on Real Time (2013), selections from Still Life (2013), Flowers (2013), and two sculptural interventions  – as interlocutors.

Leslie Hewitt was born in Saint Albans, NY in 1977 and lives and works in New York City. She holds a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a MFA from Yale University School of Art. She has exhibited in a number of American and international galleries and her work is in the public collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; among others. In the spring of 2012 she was a GunaS. Mundheim Fellow in the visual arts at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany.

Hewitt’s collaborative project with cinematographer Bradford Young, Untitled (Structures), was recently exhibited at Des Moines Art Center and The Menil Collection, Houston. The exhibition will travel to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago from March 15 through September 7, 2014. The project will also be presented at the Lofoten International Art Festival in Svolvær and Kabelvåg in the Lofoten archipelago in the north of Norway from September 6 through 29, and at the Images Festival at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, Canada, in the Spring of 2014.

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