Leslie Hewitt

Leslie Hewitt

This exhibition of Leslie Hewitt at the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), St. Louis, will provide a compelling overview of an artist whose work challenges our understanding of photography as a purely pictorial medium through an approach that emphasizes its sculptural potential.  Inspired by “the everyday and the transformative power of circumstance or situation,” she elaborates on this sensibility in her work by rephotographing family photographs and repositioning and recontextualizing objects, books, documents, and other phenomena that possess both personal and broader historical significance.  Hewitt also creates film and video work, an example of which, Untitled (Level), 2010, was presented (in March 2010) at CAM as part of our Front Room project series.  This exhibition will feature new works as well as a selection of work from throughout Hewitt’s career.

Hewitt (American, born 1977) lives and works in New York.  Her work will be presented this year as part of The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston’s Momentum Series, and has been featured in a solo exhibition at The Kitchen, New York (2010).  Her work will appear in the group exhibition “The Anxiety of Photography,” at the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, later this year, and has been presented in other significant thematic exhibitions such as “Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection,” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2011), “30 Seconds Off an Inch,” at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009); and in “The Whitney Biennial 2008,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

This exhibition is curated by Dominic Molon, Chief Curator, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis