Charlie Hewitt Woodcuts

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Photography by David Wolfe.Designed by Alina Gallo.

Prints reproduced in this catalogue are held in copyright by the artist © 2010.

Cover: Hasket’s Gold, 2009Woodcut, edition 3036” x 48”(detail)

Charlie Hewitt Woodcuts

Charlie Hewitt Woodcuts

Charlie Hewitt’s work is about “recording the time we are in” and is a response to and commentary on the time and places he has lived and worked, whether in the mill-towns and shipyards of Maine and Maryland or on the Bowery in New York City. Literature and theater have also been important sources of inspiration for Hewitt, who believes in reading as much as drawing. Profound interests in art his-tory, literature, theater and mythology are apparent in much of Hewitt’s work. He is an extremely talented, energetic and physical printmaker. He cannot sit still and is compelled to work, to draw and carve. For Hewitt, the process of beginning and developing an image and the collaborative nature of printmaking, are what make the medium so appealing.

Charlie Hewitt William Low

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Yellow Basket, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

Good Dog I, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

Excerpt from Scrape, Cut, Gouge, Bite, Print. . . The Graphic Work of Charlie Hewitt 1976-2006, The Collection Project, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine © 2006.

Good Dog III, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

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Drake’s Seat, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

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Tapestry, 2009 Woodcut, edition variant30” x 40”

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Peak’s I, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

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Casco, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

Little Diamond, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

Pink Basket, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

Blue Goose, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

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Blue Tent, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

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Spanish Music, 2009Woodcut, edition variant30” x 40”

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Yankee Harvest, 2009Woodcut, edition variant30” x 40”

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Green Sock, 2009 Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

Gray Goose, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

Peach Tent, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

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Hasket’s Gold, 2009 Woodcut, edition 30

36” x 48”

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Good Dog II, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

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Green Sock, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

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Peak’s II, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

Orange Snap, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

Splice, 2009Woodcut, edition 6014” x 12”

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Damir Porobic, Master Printer.Assistance from David Wolfe of Wolfe Editions and Irina Skornyakova.

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions2008 Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City2007 Whitney Art Works, Portland Maine2006 Farnsworth Museum, Rockland Maine Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston Maine2004 Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City2001 Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City1998 Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City Arden Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts1997 June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York City1996 Ralph Greene Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico1995 Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City Arden Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts1994 Kouros Gallery, New York City Paula Paulette Fine Arts, Portland, Maine1993 Ralph Greene Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico1992 Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine Dranoff Fine Arts, New York City Dean Valentgas Gallery, Portland, Maine

CollectionsThe Whitney Museum of Art, New York CityMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Relief PortfolioMIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MassachusettsThe Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, New York. Elindean PortfolioThe New York Public Library, New York CityThe Portland Museum of Art, Portland, MaineThe Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South CarolinaBates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, MaineColby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MaineBowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, MaineThe Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MassachusettsPhillips Academy, Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts, Eldindean PortfolioThe Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, MaineHood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New HampshireChase Manhattan Bank, New York CityChemical Bank, New York CityMaryland Bank and Trust, Lexington Park, MarylandPrudential Insurance, New York CityState University of New York, Binghamton, New YorkDillard Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina

Grants and Awards1998 New York State Foundation for the Arts, Painting1997 New York Foundation for the Arts, Drawings, Prints1974 New York State Council on the Arts, CAPS Grant

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