Eva LeWitt works with manufactured materials to create sculptures and installations that engage with the specific environment in which they are placed, interacting with the surrounding light and architecture. She carefully alters everyday commercial materials by manipulating the dye and texture, giving them a new and unique aspect. The various pieces are then arranged by the artist in hanging forms of varying colors, creating tension between suppleness and rigidity, transparency and opacity, gravity and lightness. Recalling stage sets or theater curtains, her compositions add rhythm to the space through the interplay of shape and color. 

Inspired by the musical and creative environment of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, LeWitt chose a prominent wall inside the building for her site-specific work. The distinct sections of colorful mesh strips create movement by alternating longer and shorter shapes in vibrant hues, echoing the movements of a symphony or the written notes on a music score. Similarly, the repetition of elements recalls the use of recurring sounds or sonic sequences, stressing the analogies between LeWitt’s sculptural installation and musical performances at the Shepherd School of Music. 

About the artist: 

Eva LeWitt (b. 1985, Spoleto, Italy) obtained a BFA from Bard College in 2007. Recent exhibitions of her work have been presented at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; the Jewish Museum, New York, NY; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; and the Clark Art Institute at Williams College, Williamstown, MA. A large-scale, commissioned installation of her work was on view at the New Britain Museum of American Art, CT in 2023. In 2022 LeWitt collaborated with choreographer Justin Peck to design the sets for the ballet Partita, performed by the NYC Ballet Company. LeWitt’s work is in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. and Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway, among others. She lives and works in New York City.