Hello, welcome to the website. My name is Chris Hewitt. My work is about relationships, trying to connect, to find meaning, and to explore. I like the mechanics of how things are put together, creating new connections between dissimilar objects. Exploring natural materials and working at combining and recombining them into new relationships. From this process, sometimes narrative forms, and sometimes it doesn't. With the completion of these objects, the process, my process, is definitely not over. The ultimate test for doneness is to bring the work into my home, because the artwork is for the home. I know immediately if the work is complete, or good, by the connections it makes with other objects in the house. The new work needs to find a place. It needs to work with existing art, objects, and furniture. Again, it’s all about relationships.

I’ve exhibited work at the following:

John Micheal Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI: 2021

Gallery 224, Port Washington, WI: 2011 - present

Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI: 2017

Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Fish Creek, WI: 2002 - 2003

Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN: 1998 - 1997

Steenland Art Museum, Northfield, MN: 1995

Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN: 1990 - 1997

Governor’s Residence, St. Paul, MN: 1993

Javier Puig Gallery, Minneapolis, MN: 1992

I received degrees from the follow:

MFA in Fine Arts - Studio Arts, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1992

BA Fine Arts - Ceramics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1988

Cabinet Making Certificate, South Central Technical College, Faribault, MN, 1997

Email me at:

chewittinport@gmail.com