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Installation view from Weavings: Performance #2 (Portland, OR), 2007. Photograph by Dan Kvitka |
Corin Hewitt: Seed Stage
On view October 3, 2008 — January 4, 2009Artist Corin Hewitt takes up occupancy in the Whitney’s Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Lobby Gallery in this ongoing installation that is part performance art, part live theater, and part meditation on ideas about still life. Redefining the notion of the artist-in-residence, on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays Hewitt physically moves about the space and engages in the manipulation of materials, both homegrown and store-bought, questioning the autonomy of the art object through a process of its constant transmutation. His 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.
In the News"Seed Stage" - WNYC.com ART.CULT blog "Food for Thought" - TimeOut New York "Artist in Residence, Sort of, at the Whitney" - The New York Times "Artist Moves into the Whitney Museum" - Artinfo "Still Life in Motion" - The Harvard Independent "A different kind of museum" - ABC 7Online
Slideshow: Corin Hewitt photos from Seed StageFlickrshow will appear here!
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Photos of Seed Stage installation
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Photos from past exhibitions |
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Installation view from Toad in A Hole: Performance #1 (Red Hook, NY), 2007 Photographs by Danielle Leventhal |
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Untitled #7, from Toad in A Hole: Performance #1 (Red Hook, NY), 2007
Untitled #5, from Weavings: Performance #2 (Portland, OR), 2007
Untitled #4, from Toad in A Hole: Performance #1 (Red Hook, NY), 2007
Untitled #2, from Toad in A Hole: Performance #1 (Red Hook, NY), 2007
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Support for this exhibition is provided by Judi Roaman, Oliver Kamm, Suzanne Feldman, and Taxter & Spengemann. Special thanks to Build it Green! NYC |
