Charlie Hewitt
Jim Kempner Fine Art 501 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011
This catalogue was published by Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York City.
www.jimkempnerfineart.com 212. 206. 6872 Photography and design by Alina Gallo. Prints reproduced in this catalogue are held in copyright by the artist Š 2010.
Charlie Hewitt
Drawings for Illuminations
Drawings for Illuminations #56, 1999-2009 Intaglio etching, collage, varnish, thread, pigment and ink 4 5/8� x 5 7/8�
Charlie Hewitt
Edgar Allen Beam Charlie Hewitt’s drawings are the way in which he unpacks his own psychic baggage, examining his life and the life around him and commenting on the human condition. His images are a form of shorthand for experience. They are meaningful in the way that tattoos are meaningful, recording that which is most important to an individual in a direct and conceptually economic way. From Charlie Hewitt at Work: Twenty Years of Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, 2006.
Drawings for Illuminations #1, 1999-2009 Intaglio etching, collage, varnish, pigment and ink 6� x 8�
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Drawings for Illuminations #3 Etching, Collage, Thread 8 in x 12 in 1999-2009
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Biography Selected Solo Exhibitions 2008 2007 2006 2004 2001 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City Whitney Art Works, Portland Maine Farnsworth Museum, Rockland Maine Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston Maine Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City Arden Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York City Ralph Greene Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City Arden Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Kouros Gallery, New York City Paula Paulette Fine Arts, Portland, Maine Ralph Greene Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine Dranoff Fine Arts, New York City Dean Valentgas Gallery, Portland, Maine
Collections The Whitney Museum of Art, New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Relief Portfolio MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, New York. Elindean Portfolio The New York Public Library, New York City The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine The Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine The Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts, Eldindean Portfolio The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City Chemical Bank, New York City Maryland Bank and Trust, Lexington Park, Maryland Prudential Insurance, New York City State University of New York, Binghamton, New York Dillard Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Grants and Awards 1998 1997 1974
New York State Foundation for the Arts, Painting New York Foundation for the Arts, Drawings, Prints New York State Council on the Arts, CAPS Grant
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