Heather Hutchison - Artist Statement

I have been exploring translucent media for 20 years. In these post-Minimal works, as much sculpture as painting, the shallow shadow box constructions of plywood and enamel literally capture light and allow it to resonate back through an attached plexiglass surface. The effect is depth and vibrancy of hue and value, where the thin layers of wax and pigment, brushed uniformly on the surface, act both to catalyze and diffuse the tempered light.  The resulting color-luminosity registers the changing natural light specific to any moment of a given day.

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Exhibitions

• 2006 Please Do Not Touch, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY

• 2006 Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY

• 2006 Highlights, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA

• 2006 7+14, Kleinert -James Art Center, Woodstock, NY

• 2005 Hope, Gavin Brown Enterprises, Passerby, New York, NY

• 2002 Breathing Room, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York,NY

• 2002 Ordinate/Coordinate, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY

• 2000 Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

• 2000 Melting Pot, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY

• 1999 Transparent Facade, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

• 1999 Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

• 1999 Gridlock, Concerning the Grid in Contemporary Art, University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Center, Kingston, RI

• 1998 Regatta 98 (Miraculously Sublime), Sideshow Gallery Inc., Brooklyn,NY

• 1998 Get Close, Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, New York, NY

• 1998 Section 33, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

• 1998 Transparent Facade, The Work Space, New York, NY

• 1997 Invitational ’97, Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY

• 1997 Peeling a Grape, Condeso-Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

• 1997 Heather Hutchison, Paul Manes, Roberto Pietrosanti, Galerie Extra Moenia, Todi, Italy

• 1997 New York Next Generation, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Pallazzo Penna, Perugia,Italy

• 1995 Permanent Collection Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

• 1995 Painting Outside Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Washington, DC

• 1995 Minimal: Optimal Part 1, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY

• 1995 Exemplary Images, Greystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• 1995 Down The Garden Path, The Workspace, New York, NY

• 1993 Heather Hutchison/Susana-Jaime Mena, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY

• 1993 As Above, So Below, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY

• 1993 Larry Bell/Heather Hutchison, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO

• 1992 Transparency and Shape, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY

• 1992 New York Selections, Sunrise Museum, Charlestown, West Virginia

• 1992 Cross-Currents, Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR

• 1991 Three Women, Tom Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO

• 1991 Home for June, HOME for Contemporary Theatre, New York, NY

• 1991 Compulsion, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, NY

• 1991 Current Minimalist, Atlanta Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA

• 1990 Homage to the Square, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York,NY

• 1989 Art of the Contemporary Triptych, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New Yon, MS

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