Leslie HEWITT

Reading Room

solo show

September 11 - October 26, 2019

new york

130 Orchard Street

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press release

1 017 people attended the opening.
6 281 people attended the exhibition.
The exhibition was open for 34 days.
Daily average 185 visitors per day including opening, 160 per day excluding opening.

Courtesy Perrotin

Leslie Hewitt, Untitled (Cornucopia), 2019. Digital chromogenic print in custom elm frame. 133 x 158 x 18 cm | 52 3/8 x 62 3/16 x 7 1/16 inch.
Courtesy Perrotin

Courtesy Perrotin

Leslie Hewitt, Riffs on Real Time (2 of 10), 2012-2017. Silver gelatin print. 95.9 x 78.1 cm | 37 3/4 x 30 3/4 inch.
Courtesy Perrotin

Courtesy Perrotin

Throughout the duration of the exhibition, Hewitt will invite friends, colleagues, and thought partners to activate the space in a series of semi-public gestures in response to the notion of a collective archiving with curator/writer Omar Berrada, DJ/collagist Ayana Contreras, historian/writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, cinematographer Bradford Young, and musician Tariq Trotter/Black Thought.
Courtesy Perrotin

Perrotin New York presents Reading Room, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Leslie Hewitt, opening September 11 and on view through October 26, 2019. For this exhibition, Hewitt introduces new bodies of work, including a series of photo-sculptures, wall interventions and reductive steel objects, as well as a conceptual reframing of the gallery’s adjacent bookstore.