As drawing is the basis of all of Hewitt’s art, the show will also include a collection of small works on paper from his Illuminations series. In Hewitt’s new sculptural work, hammers, saw blades, chains and dice--symbolic language of the artist’s working class background and Roman Catholic upbringing--are synthesized and assembled into playful, edgy and often elegant lines and shapes that appear to be abstract drawings dancing in space.
Hewitt’s work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, New York Public Library, NY; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Library of Congress, D.C.; Portland Museum of Art, ME; and many others. The artist lives and works in Portland, Maine.
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