"The Minimalist Installations of Sculptor Eva LeWitt" by Jonathan Orozco

Residents in Omaha, Nebraska have been anticipating the re-opening of the Art Deco-era Joslyn Art Museum after it closed in May 2022 for a two year expansion. In September, the museum opened its doors with an additional 16,000 square feet of gallery space, designed by the Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta in partnership with the Omaha firm Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture.

On September 10, the day of the opening, nearly one hundred people waited outside Joslyn's new north entrance. At exactly 1 pm, a staff person opened the doors, letting a swarm of people rush to the front desk to get their pink metal admission pins with the museum’s “J”. Up a winding staircase, you’re greeted by a pinocchio sculpture by Jim Dine, among other postmodernist paintings and sculptures.  

New York artist Eva LeWitt is among the three inaugural artists with solo-shows at the museum, alongside Omaha-born Ed Ruscha and French Clément Cogitore.

LeWitt, though born in Spoleto, Italy, was raised in Chester, Connecticut. She is the daughter of the conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, who moved to Italy in the 1980s to get away from New York. After graduating from Bard College in 2007, she worked with artist Tom Sachs for four years and then worked with the sculptor Tara Donovan for another eight. 

Walking to the show, visitors see highlights from Joslyn's permanent collection, like works by Donald Judd, Frank Stella, and Sol LeWitt.

Titled after the artist’s name, the exhibition is a series of modular sculptures that grew from a 2022 exhibition at Luhring Augustine. LeWitt is now toying with how grids can be used to create volume with two-dimensional materials. 

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