Corin Hewitt: Weavings: Performance No. 2 (Portland, OR)

Oblong format book, unpaginated with 75 color photos taken by Corin Hewitt during his installation Weavings: Performance #2 at Small A Projects in September, 2007. Front cover has a belly band with a dye extracted from red cherries and cabbage and applied by Mr. Hewitt at the printer's facilities in Seoul. Back cover contains a pocket with two booklets: one an essay by Marisa Sanchez and the other an interview with Mr. Hewitt by Michael Brenson. All in Fine condition. During a three-week residency at Portland, Oregon s 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, Hewitt s innovative work has also been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Seattle Art Museum and Taxter Spengemann gallery in New York.