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Email PageFrom You to Me and Back Again
June 1, 2006- July 1, 2006
Reception: June 1, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Leslie Hewitt, Matt Keegan
Wallspace
619 W 27th St
From You to Me and Back Again is a project proposed to Wallspace by Leslie Hewitt and Matt Keegan that explores the “nature” of the photographic medium.
Incorporating the floors, walls, and the corners where they meet, Hewitt and Keegan use the gallery space as a site to continue a five-yearlong conversation about photography, its abstractions, politics and subjectivities.
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. One of her works for the project is Make It Plain (4 of 5), 2006, an uncanny photograph of a seemingly simple arrangement of disparate objects addressing appropriation and loss, printed to billboard scale. Hewitt’s larger-than-life-size image exposes the syncretism of a seemingly mundane section of a room.
Keegan uses photographs to collage locations and moments, exposing the slippage of memory and the role that photographs play as stand-ins for the experiential. His photographs and collages originate from a 4x6-standardized scale and evolve to their final size and composition through a rigorous process of layering and sculpting, resulting in a complex aesthetic informed by the processes of remembering and forgetting. For Sky Pocket, 2006, Keegan works with a mirrored image and its frame to carve out a space within the gallery where the distinctions between sculptural and photographic are folded in on themselves.
Hewitt and Keegan mine their shared relationship to the medium in individual and collaborative site-specific projects. Their collaborative work CMYK floral, 2006, is a time-based piece that shifts for the duration of the exhibition, pointing to the artificiality of the color system we experience daily. In Reflection, 2006, Hewitt and Keegan create a mirrored replica of an architectural feature of the gallery, transforming the act of reproduction into a physical experience. Both artists are interested in modes of display that shift conventions and have looked to the architectural quirks of the space to guide their installation decisions. The result is a series of subtle interventions that turns the artists’ attraction to the peripheral into a stance.
During the months leading up to the presentation of this project, Hewitt and Keegan extended invitations to artist Michael Queenland and writer Lori Salmon to collaborate with them in written conversations. The result of this synergy is a small publication. This publication is the realization of From You to Me and Back Again, extending the limits of the exhibition through dialogue and distribution. Please contact the gallery to receive a copy.
Leslie Hewitt (b.1977, Saint Albans, New York) 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. She is a participant in the Artist Pension Trust. She has held residencies at Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions 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.
Matt Keegan (b. 1976, Manhasset, New York) is an artist based in New York. He received his MFA from Columbia University in 2004 and his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1998. His work has been exhibited at White Columns, New York; China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles; Sculpture Center, New York; D’Amelio Terras, New York and Nicole Klagsbrun, New York. In 2005 and 2006, he arranged “Etc.,” a series of shows and events at Andrew Kreps Gallery, as well as exhibitions with his curatorial collaborative, Public Holiday Projects, at Champion Fine Arts, Los Angeles, and Expodium, The Netherlands. He is co-editor and co-publisher, along with Sara Greenberger Rafferty, of North Drive Press, the third installment of which is slated for publication this summer.
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