Past Exhibitions

	Weavings: Performance #2 (Portland, Oregon), 2007, Corin Hewitt
SAM Next: Corin Hewitt April 4–October 18, 2009 SAM Third Floor Galleries

New York–based artist Corin Hewitt spent one week in September 2007 on view in a gallery in Portland, Oregon, creating vivid and complex still lifes out of a variety of materials, both organic and inorganic. Hewitt photographed and often rephotographed these still lifes, producing a dynamic body of 75 color images. The collection, called Weavings: Performance #2 (Portland, Oregon), goes on view to the public for the first time as part of the SAM Next series. Hewitt’s work explores memory, decay, preservation and transformation in relation to personal and cultural history, looking at how they relate to the mediums of photography, sculpture and performance.

Last spring, the Seattle Art Museum launched the contemporary art exhibition program SAM Next. The series introduces audiences to emerging or underappreciated artists working in the Northwest, around the United States and internationally.

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This exhibition is organized by the Seattle Art Museum with support provided by the Helen and Max Gurvich Exhibition Endowment.

Weavings: Performance #2 (Portland, Oregon), 2007, Corin Hewitt, American, b. 1971, 75 photographs printed 2008, Miller Meigs Collection