Friday, October 16, 2009

Leslie Hewitt's Riffs On Real Time

Some of Leslie Hewitt's images from her series Riffs On Real Time are currently on view as part of the "New Photography 2009" exhibition at MOMA. She shares the walls with some of contemporary photography's most interesting collectors, appropriators and collagists - Walead Beshty, Daniel Gordon, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby, and Sara VanDerBeek. The press release for the show states:

"New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of the medium. Although the six artists in this installation—Walead Beshty, Daniel Gordon, Leslie Hewitt, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby, and Sara VanDerBeek—represent diverse points of view, working methods, and pictorial modes ranging from abstract to representational, their images all begin in the studio or the darkroom and result from processes involving collection, assembly, and manipulation. Many of the works are made with everyday materials and objects, as well as images from the Internet, magazines, newspapers, and books. Some of the artists also work in other mediums and their pictures relate to disciplines such as drawing, sculpture, and installation. As traditional photographic techniques are being quickly replaced by digital technologies, the artists included here examine the process and structure of making photographs."


From "Riffs On Real Time"
© Leslie Hewitt



From "Riffs On Real Time"
© Leslie Hewitt



From "Riffs On Real Time"
© Leslie Hewitt



From "Riffs On Real Time"
© Leslie Hewitt



From "Riffs On Real Time"
© Leslie Hewitt