Art as process. Process is art.

An exhibit running until Jan 4, 2009, at The Whitney Museum of American Art in NY features Corin Hewitt. The exhibit is entitled Corin Hewitt: Seed Stage.

I love this exhibit. It demystifies art because the artist and the process are literally at the center of the gallery. In the physical gallery space, Hewitt can be seen creating the pieces which hang on the gallery walls. It is a great meaning for Artist-In-Residence. Here is the information from the Whitney: Artist Corin Hewitt takes up occupancy in the Whitney’s Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Lobby Gallery in this ongoing installation that is part performance art, part live theater, and part meditation on ideas about still life. Redefining the notion of the artist-in-residence, on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays Hewitt physically moves about the space and engages in the manipulation of materials, both homegrown and store-bought, questioning the autonomy of the art object through a process of its constant transmutation. His methods include cooking, sculpting, heating and cooling, casting, canning, eating, and photographing both organic and inorganic materials. The result is an intimate examination of the cycles of transformation and transience.