Leslie Hewitt
Photographer/Sculptor
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Leslie Hewitt uses photography, sculpture and film to challenge the representation and organization of social meaning. Hewitt uses the camera as a tool to reposition ones view, subtly disrupting the window effect and expectations of a photographic document. She engages architectural space and the fragmentation of time through photographic and sculptural means. In exploring the “revolution embedded” in photography and film, her work addresses how cultural material is documented, classified and preserved. 

Hewitt is included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions also include The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Sculpture Center, New York; Rush Arts Gallery, New York; The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT and LAXART, Los Angeles, CA. Hewitt received her MFA from Yale University in 2004 and her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2000. She attended New York University for Africana Studies, 2001-04.