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64 x 36. Watercolor and computer print on silk. 2004
Work Field
Exploring the relationships between nature and technology in any media, from computer graphics and motor parts to bones and feathers to ceramic and pastels.
Artist's Bio
Laura C. Hewitt has lived in Interior Alaska since 1985. She earned an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Vermont College and a BFA in drawing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has taught metalsmithing and drawing at the University of Alaska Fairbanks since 1999. Her work has shown in over 200 national and international exhibitions. Currently she is exhibiting at the Edward Hopper House Art Center in Nyack, NY thru 26 Nov 04 and included in a group exhibit at GalleryThe.Org in Brooklyn, NY thru January. In January 05, her computer prints on silk will be on display as part of a group exhibit at the Fading Ad Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. She is interested in recombining and intersecting visual images, materials or concepts that are generally presented as dichotomous such as natural/technological, art/craft, old/new, real/simulacra, city/rural. She likes to challenge the status quo of popular perception, not as a critical negation, but to provoke reevaluation and rethinking.
Artist's statement
These selections were originally created in response to my experience of describing bowhunting bear in Interior Alaska to non-hunting friends in NYC, by email, complete with digital images. I was uncomfortable with the way the powerful, primal and organic richness of my experiences were sanitized by digitalization; how hygenic, safe and downright banal it became via email. The series evolved into a continuing exploration of the interaction between technology and the natural world. It derives from my personal life experiences and has been informed by the critical works of Jacques Derrida, Avital Ronell, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
contact:
http://inaeent.com
inae@inaeent.com
9 x 7 x 5. Bear skull, diodes, electrodes, leather, porcupine quills and paint. 2002
36 x 48. Pastel and bleach on black paper. 2003
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