Gray

A conceptual artist working in photography and sculpture, Hewitt considers the way a work’s impact changes based upon how it is displayed and viewed. She often repurposes found material and film footage relating to Black popular culture of the 1970s and 1980s. With a background in Africana studies, Hewitt is interested in revisiting moments within Black intellectual history. Drawn to the language of Minimalism, much of Hewitt’s photography presents an image within an image. This can take the form of a photograph of another photograph lying against a hardwood floor or a carpet. The enigmatic composition in Gray extends Hewitt’s investigations of the “framing” of art, presenting a quasi-Surrealist defamiliarization of the qualities one might associate with interior and exterior.