Three Videos about Buildings

Corin Hewitt

Lane Meyer Projects is pleased to present Three Videos about Buildings , a solo exhibition featuring artworks by Corin Hewitt

January 31, 2020 - March 3, 2020

Opening Reception: Friday January 31, 7pm - ?

For Immediate Release:

Lane Meyer Projects is pleased to present Three Videos about Buildings, a solo exhibition featuring artworks by Corin Hewitt.

For this exhibition, Hewitt focuses on relationships between bodies and architecture.  These videos span fifteen years of Hewitt's practice which also includes installation, performance, and photography.  

The earliest video, House, 2004, takes the viewer through repeating cycles of four fixed shots around the exterior of a rural cabin. Inside the cabin, a figure appears to be either constructing or destroying the building. The sounds of construction, heavy breathing, fire, and digestion create shifting positions for the viewer. At times, the work feels like a work of voyeuristic horror, and others like a kind of construction comedy. 

In Wall, 2010, Hewitt tracks a hole in a wall being patched and then cut open again. In the video, printed photographic replicas of materials, tools, and the artist’s hands appear alongside “original” versions of each. In this 72-minute video, Hewitt uses a methodical absurdist, and often comedic approach to use a hole in a wall as a way to think through cycles of restoration and deconstruction. 

Lastly, we will show Hewitt's 2015 video, The Phone Booth. This video is one in a series of videos that investigate four photographs of a building. For reasons both mysterious and practical, this building, inherited by the artist has been left unfinished since its construction in 1980. Each of the videos in this series takes a different approach to the photographs, in order to meditate on architecture and images as intrinsically incomplete and unreconciled spaces. The Phone Booth focuses on the movement and exchange of windows. The video begins with a series of animations of photographs of the building that play over a single note composition, then leads into a humorously droll lecture about the photographs, the building, and its window styles. The viewer is left in a sea of language about an architectural invention that, like photography, was intended to frame the spaces that surround us. 

For the duration of the exhibition, visitors are welcome to listen to the videos with provided headphone; please handle with care.

Additional Events in conjunction with Three Videos about Buildings:

As a Marsico Visiting Scholar, Corin Hewitt will be giving a free public lecture at Denver University at the Vicki Myhren Gallery on Wednesday, January 29th from 6pm - 7:30pm. The Vicki Myhren Gallery is located at 2121 E. Asbury Ave. Denver, CO 80210 (In the University of Denver School of Art).

In conjunction with TBD at Lane Meyer Projects, curators Brooke Tomiello and Rose Van Mierlo have curated a video exhibition titled Wonder by Wonder for Night Lights Denver February program opening on February 1, 2020. Wonder by Wonder features a video excerpt of Corin’s, titled Wall (2010) which was originally commissioned by Western Bridge, Seattle Washington with production assistance by Maggie Carson Romano. In the video, printed photographic replicas of materials, tools, and the artist’s hands appear alongside “original” versions of each. The materials from the walls of the institution were supplemented with tools, computers, cameras, and printers to create a fragmented cube surrounding the tabletop where the video was being produced. You can find out more about Corin’s video and Denver Night Lights here. Wonder by Wonder runs every Thurs, Fri & Sat in February from 6:15pm - 9:15pm and can be seen from the Arapahoe Street side of the Daniels & Fisher Tower, located at 1601 Arapahoe St, on the 16th Street Mall

Corin Hewitt’s installations, performances, sculptures, photographs, and videos investigate relationships within architecture and domestic life. He also often draws on past experience as an electrician and plumber — a laborer who works in often unseen and utilitarian spaces. Hewitt received his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA from Bard College. He is an Associate Professor and Graduate Director of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Solo exhibitions of Hewitt’s work include Whitney Museum of American Art, MOCA Cleveland, ICA VCU, the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, the Seattle Museum of Art, Laurel Gitlen, New York, Taxter and Spengemann, NY, and Western Bridge, Seattle. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo;  Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp; the Memmo Foundation, Rome; the Sao Paolo Biennial in Brazil; the Whitney Museum, New York; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Galerie Perrotin, Paris; with the Public Art Fund in New York; and the Wanas Foundation in Sweden. Hewitt was a recipient of the 2014–5 American Academy Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2011, and a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 2010.  In 2015, Mousse Publications released a 300-page monograph, entitled Seven Performances featuring six years of work.