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corin hewitt weavings
during a three week residency at portland oregons small a projects in 2007 new york based artist corin hewitt born in 1971 constructed an elaborate workspace within the gallery complete with a kitchen photo studio and theater in which the apron wearing artist performed a series of tasks cooking sculpting eating and weaving as gallery visitors viewed him through a peephole . merging elements representing both the contemporary and the historic northwest hewitt transformed such materials as baskets fabric canned food fresh vegetables and grass as well as elements from the first performance in this ongoing series into hybridized objects . the 75 color photographs in this book all taken on site by hewitt document the performance . combining the sculptural with the theatrical the photographic with the performative hewitts innovative work has also been shown at the whitney museum of american art the seattle art museum and taxter & spengemann gallery in new york .
hardcover j & l books 2009 isbn13 9780979918841 isbn10 0979918847
abridged n isbn 13 9780979918841 number in series 1 number of pages 96 publisher distributed art pub inc release date 1241136000000