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Charlie Hewitt (August 21,1946) is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and public artist based in Maine. He is known for his public art projects in Maine and New York.

Biography
Biography

Hewitt was born into a large working-class French Canadian family in Lewiston, Maine on August 21, 1946, and he was raised in Lewiston/Auburn and Brunswick, Maine.[i] He earned his college degree at Concord College in Athens, West Virginia.[ii] He moved to New York City in 1969 and studied at the New York Studio School under artists Philip Guston, David Hare and Elaine DeKooning.[iii] [iv]

In 1984, Hewitt returned to Maine, where he created prints at the Vinalhaven Press. He transformed a former florist shop and greenhouse in Portland into a studio known as the “Electric Greenhouse,” which houses his light sculptures.[v]

Hewitt maintains his studio in New York City, where he is represented by Jim Kempner Fine Art.

Work
Hewitt is known for his public sculptures installed and displayed throughout various locations on the East Coast.[i] Hopeful is a work consisting of a series of light sculptures and signs installed in dozens of locations in several states from Maine to Maryland.[ii] [iii] It began in 2019 as a commissioned piece for contemporary art gallery Speedwell Projects for the roof of their headquarters in Portland, Maine.[iv] Hewitt has described the sculpture as a reaction to the increased polarization of the world.[v] Hewitt’s Urban Rattle is one of only a few permanently installed art pieces along the High Line in New York City.[vi]

Hewitt’s painting and printmaking primarily references Pop art. He has explored digital art as well, creating NFTs from original drawings.[vii]

Works of art by Hewitt are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Brooklyn Museum in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; and several museums in Maine.[viii]

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Bright Screens and Electric Dreams - Moss Galleries - Portland, Maine "Charlie Hewitt Exhibit at Moss Galleries". Elizabeth Moss Galleries.

2022 Light Up - Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, Connecticut "Works - Charlie Hewitt". Heather Gaudio Fine Art.

2022 New Work - Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City, New York "Charlie Hewitt: New Work by Jim Kempner Fine Art - Issuu"

2022 Bush of Ghosts - Moss Galleries - Portland, Maine "Charlie Hewitt Exhibit at Moss Galleries"

2020 Virtual Exhibition - Charlie Hewitt’s Prints, Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine https://www.covestreetarts.com/exhibitions-1/current-exhibition-hewitt-prints?fbclid=IwAR3glEg-ouLPwTigHTPK9gF5uNIprebeH1LWXDrdhqlnpf4HUjNFfybUeds

2019 Left of the Turnpike, Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2343671125895607&set=pb.100063622358149.-2207520000. August 1, 2019

2019 Abstract Paintings and Electric Dreams, Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, ME. https://courthousegallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Hewitt_2019.pdf

Public Sculpture Installations
Hopeful: Lexington Park, MD (2022)[i];Augusta, ME (2021)[iii]; Bangor, ME (2020)[v]; Bates Mills, Lewiston, ME[vi] (2019); Speedwell Projects, Portland,

ME[vii] (2019)

French Rose “Beauté Française,” Auburn, Maine (2022) [ii]

Dallas Boot, Primera Properties, Plano, TX (2021) [iv] and Towne Square Place II, Portland, ME (2021)[1] [2]

Portland Rattle, 511 Congress Street, Portland ME (2015) [viii]

L/A Rattle, L/A Arts, Lewiston, ME (2015)

Brooklyn Swing: Primera Companies, Dallas, TX (2013) [ix]

Urban Rattle: Equity Builders for Ten23 Apartments (High Line), New York, NY (2013) [x]

Grants and Awards
1998 New York Foundation for the Arts, Painting

1997 New York Foundation for the Arts, Drawings, Prints

1974 New York State Council of the Arts, CAPS Grant[i]

Selected Publications
2010 Charlie Hewitt: Sculpture, Jim Kempner Fine Art, University of Maine Library, OCLC #731037489 http://ursus.maine.edu/search/o731037489

2010 Charlie Hewitt: Drawings for Illuminations, Jim Kempner Fine Art, University of Maine Library, OCLC #693188783 http://ursus.maine.edu/search/o693188783

2009 Charlie Hewitt: Woodcuts, Jim Kempner Fine Art, University of Maine Library, OCLC #693110217 http://ursus.maine.edu/search/o693110217

2007 Scrape, cut, gouge, bite, print : the graphic work of Charlie Hewitt 1976-2006 Essay by David Becker, The Collection Project, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine. Smithsonian Libraries, ISBN: 0977357015 9780977357017 https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1689916XE3200.12790&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!908738~!0&ri=3&aspect=subtab103&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Hewitt,+Charlie,+1946-+--+Exhibitions.&index=PSUBJ&uindex=&aspect=subtab103&menu=search&ri=3

2006 Charlie Hewitt at Work: twenty years of paintings, sculpture and works on paper, Essay by E.A. Beem, Farnsworth Museum - Thomas J Watson Library. Metropolitan Museum of Art, ISBN: 0918749220 9780918749222 https://library.metmuseum.org:443/record=b1596412~S1

2001 Art on Paper, vol. 6, no. 1, 2001, pp. 73–73. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24558332

2000 Lasting Impressions: contemporary prints from the Bruce Brown Collection  - Library of Congress, ISBN: 0916857190  https://lccn.loc.gov/99076990

1997 In Print : Contemporary Artists at the Vinalhaven Press, Gallant, Aprile, and David P. Becker, Portland, ME: Portland Museum of Art, Print, National Gallery of Art Library, ISBN : 0916857093

Selected Permanent Collections
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME

Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

New York Public Library, New York, NY

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

Prudential Insurance, New York, NY

Rollins Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

State University of New York, Binghamton, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY