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Leslie Hewitt
“I Wish It Were True” (Installation at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY) 2006 Dimensions variable Found lamp, constructed drywall, projected newsreel footage from “Open Mind” in 1963. This footage featured a live televised debate with many early major black civil right leaders including: Malcolm X, James Farmer, Wyatt T. Walker and Alain Morrison. This rare program addressed the distinct positions held by black leaders to combat the climate of racism in the United Stat
EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2007 NEXUS TEXAS, contemporary arts museum houston, houston, texas
2501 STUDIO, project row houses, houston, texas
ALABAMA, office baroque gallery, antwerpen, belgium
CORE, glassel school of art, houston, texas
REASONS TO RIOT, memphis college of art, memphis, tennessee
REPLICA OF A LOST ORIGINAL, artists space, new york, new york
2006 PASSIN’ IT ON, rush arts gallery, new york, new york
I WISH IT WERE TRUE, jamaica center for arts & learning, queens, new york
BLACK ALPHABET, zacheta national gallery of art, warsaw, poland
CIVIL RESTITUTIONS, thomas dane gallery, london, united kingdom
BEING THERE, ingalls & associates gallery, miami, florida
EMERGE SEVEN, aljira, a center for contemporary art, newark, new jersey
STUDY HALL: THE CARBONIST SCHOOL, eyedrum art/musical, atlanta, georgia
MAKE IT PLAIN, la>