Sarah Hewitt is all about the making. She explores expressive qualities of high-art basketry within the broad context of contemporary aesthetics. This ain’t the underwater basket-making activity you did at day camp. This is high craft married to an uncanny ability to evoke emotion through abstraction, recalling both Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois. More than a touch of the primitivist/universal haunts her project. Despite being rigorously abstract, her pieces always seem mysteriously endowed with the kind of arresting emotive presence traditionally found in figurative form.
Jon Carver
THE Magazine
Jon Carver
THE Magazine
