Leslie Hewitt: Achromatic Scales

Leslie Hewitt: Achromatic Scales brings together recent work from three ongoing series: Riffs on Real Time, Chromatic Grounds, and Riffs on Real Time with Ground. This installation positions the personal, the collective, and the literary as interchangeable elements in an endless series of compositions. In Riffs on Real Time, Hewitt spends a year developing and photographing sets of temporary sculptures from three stacked layers of found photographs, archival books, magazines, and obscured documents. Anchored by backgrounds such as her studio floors and photographed from above, all elements in view collapse into a single frame. Paired with the vivid photograms of Chromatic Grounds, Hewitt explores color as a counterpoint to the geometry and perceived order of Riffs on Real Time, complicating the idea of photography as purely objective or easily consumed. Drawing on the art historical genres of Conceptualism, Minimalism, and still life, while engaging with mid-20th century material culture, Hewitt marks time through a social and political lens, allowing for asymmetry and unexpected patterns to surface. Achromatic Scales offers a nuanced and poetic view of photography — one that is open, fluid, and shaped by connections between images, histories, and ideas, revealing new and unexpected possibilities.