Ms. Hutchison’s work explores the visual ratio of changing light over time, utilizing various transparent materials, color and form. Making the gallery walls part of her canvas, natural light forms ever-changing “paintings” as it travels though bent plexiglas forms, creating fluctuating colors and shadows. The ephemeral subject matter of all the pieces, the passage of time, is bound by one constant: light. To underline this, the artist has also created two video installations: one presented as a traditionally framed Hudson River School painting capturing sunset and moonrise at Saugerties Beach, compressing several hours into minutes, and the other utilizing the reflection of glowing embers to illuminate the gallery’s storefront window. Cindy Moore writes: “Hutchison’s paintings are impossible to experience thorough reproductions. No matter how skilled the photographer, they cannot be captured in a fixed moment. The work is responsive in a way that is alien to traditional painting: as the light shifts, so does the hue”. Maia Damianovic, describing the experience of Hutchison’s work, says: “Our gaze has no privileged or natural access, only fleeting opportunities that may be seized, in Blake’s words, “to catch joy as it flies”. And Eleanor Heartney writes in Art News: “Hutchison demonstrates that Minimalism and metaphor do not make such an odd couple after all.”
Exhibition Essay, “boxed light bodies” by George Quasha http://bit.ly/hhcca4
video interview: http://bit.ly/
Artist’s website: http://heatherhutchison.com
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HEATHER HUTCHISON
Born 1964 Philomath, OR. Lives and works in New York, USA.
AWARDS
2012 POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION, Grant
2011 GOTTLIEB FOUNDATION, Individual Support Grant
2009 NEW YORK FOUNDATION for the ARTS, S.O.S. Grant
SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Brooklyn, NY
THE HAMMER MUSEUM, Los Angeles, CA
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D.C.
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, Boston, MA
ART IN EMBASSIES, Beijing, China
EXHIBITIONS *SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
2013
“Actions or Interventions”, NOHRA HAIME GALLERY, NY, NY
*”Occupied Space”, IMOGEN HOLLOWAY GALLEY, Saugerties, NY
“Natural Elements”, art space 64 @ MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING, NY, NY. Curator Holly Shen Chaves
“Sideshow Nation”, SIDESHOW, Williamsburg, NY. Curator Rich Timperio
2012
*“Hot Flash”, IMOGENE HOLLOWAY, Saugerties, NY
“The Sky is Falling”, KLEINERT JAMES ART CENTER, Woodstock, NY. Curator Alan Baer
“Zoom In”, IMOGENE HOLLOWAY, Saugerties, NY. Curator Diane Dwyer
“mic;check (The Human mic)” SIDESHOW, Brooklyn, NY. Curator Rich Timperio
2011
* Heather Hutchison “1991-2011”, WFG GALLERY, Woodstock, NY
“Plane Speaking”, McKENZIE GALLERY, NY, NY. Curator Valerie McKenzie
“Obsessive/ Reductive”, COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS, Santa Clarita, CA.
Curator Peter Barrett
“Living Here”, KTD MONASTERY, Woodstock, NY. Curator Cate Woodruff
“It’s All Good (Apocolypse Now)”, SIDESHOW, Brooklyn, NY
2009
“Dissolution”, SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM, SUNY, New Paltz, NY
*“Fighting, Dancing, and Standing Still,” SUNY, MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY, Stone Ridge, NY. Curator Suzy Jeffers
“Ecotones / Transition Zones”, SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM, New Paltz, NY. Curator Brian Wallace
“Intangible Mood”, NOHRA HAIME GALLERY, NY, NY
“Layered/ Boxed”, NOHRA HAIME GALLERY, NY, NY
“It’s a Wonderful Life”, SIDESHOW, Brooklyn, NY
2008
“The Idea of Nature”, 33 BOND, New York, NY. Curator Bill Weiss
“Regarding Global Warming and Climate Change,” FISHER STUDIO AT BARD COLLEGE, Annandale on Hudson, NY. Curator Sigrid Sandstrom
“Obsessive/ Reductive,” THE HOGAR COLLECTION, Brooklyn, NY. Curator Peter Barrett
“Re-Mix”, MARGARET THATCHER PROJECTS, NY, NY
“PEACE”, SIDESHOW, Brooklyn, NY
“BLUE”, KLEINERT JAMES ART CENTER, Woodstock, NY. Curated by Portia Munson
“Summer Journeys, Summer Dreams”, PENTIMENTE GALLERY, Philadelphia, PA
2007
*“Black and Light”, KLEINERT JAMES ART CENTER, Woodstock, NY
“Luxe, Calme, et Volupté,” MARCIA WOOD, Atlanta, GA. Curator Joanne Mattera
“War is Over AGAIN,” SIDESHOW, Brooklyn, NY
2006
*”Night as Clear as Day”, MARGARET THATCHER PROJECTS, NY, NY*
“PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH”, WINSTON WACHTER, NY, NY
“Cowgirls of The Hudson Valley”, BRIK GALLERY, Catskill, NY. Curator Rich Timperio
“Lights”, WINSTON WACHTER, Seattle, WA
“7+14”, KLEINERT JAMES ART CENTER, Woodstock, NY
2005
“R&F Biennial”, SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM, New Paltz,, NY
“HOPE”, GAVIN BROWN ENTERPRISES, NY, NY
“This is not an archive. This must be the place,” CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES AT BARD COLLEGE, Annandale-on Hudson, NY. Curator CCS students.
2003
*”Sheer Painting”, MARGARET THATCHER PROJECTS, NY, NY
2002
“Breathing Room,” MARGARET THATCHER PROJECTS, NY, NY
“Ordinate/Coordinate,” KENISE BARNES, Larchmont, NY
2000
“Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America,” KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART, Knoxville, TN. Curator Gail Stavitsky
“Melting Pot,” KENISE BARNES, Larchmont, NY
1999
“Transparent Facade,” OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, LA, CA. Curator Fran Siegel
“Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America,” MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM, Montclair, NJ. Curator Gail Stavitsky
“Gridlock, Concerning the Grid in Contemporary Art,” UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND , Kingston, RI. Curator Judith Tolnick
1998
“Section 33,” DUMBO ARTS CENTER, Brooklyn, NY. Curator Joy Glidden
“Regatta 98: Miraculously Sublime”, SIDESHOW , Brooklyn, NY. Curator Rich Timperio
“Get Close”, MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN GALLERY, NY, NY
1997
*”Deborah Ascheim, John Evans, Heather Hutchison, Mary Judge”, KNOEDLER, NY, NY. Curator Marella Consolini
“Heather Hutchison, Paul Manes, Roberto Pietrosanti,” GALERIE EXTRA MOENIA, Todi, Italy. Curator Giuliana Dorazio
“New York Next Generation,” MUSEO CONTEMPORANEA D’ARTE PALLAZO PENNA, Perugia,Italy. Curator Barbara Rose
1995
*”Daily Thoughts for Daily Needs”, NOHRA HAIME , NY, NY
“Permanent Collection Exhibition,” THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Brooklyn, NY
“Painting Outside Painting,” THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, 44th BIENNIAL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PAINTING, Washington, DC. Curator Terrie Sultan
“Minimal: Optimal, Part 1”, ELGA WIMMER, NY, NY. Curator Maia Damianovic
1994
*”Translucid Passages”, NOHRA HAIME, NY, NY
1993
*”Bold as Love”, PATRICIA SHEA, LA, CA
*”Heather Hutchison/ Susana-Jaime Mena”, NOHRA HAIME, NY, NY
“Larry Bell/ Heather Hutchison,” TOM TAVELLI, Aspen, CO
“Intuitive Perception”, NOHRA HAIME, NY, NY. Curator Nohra Haime
1992
*“Cross-Currents”, SHEA & BORNSTEIN, LA, CA
“Transparency and Shape”, ELGA WIMMER, NY, NY. Curator Christopher French
1991
*“Five Easy Pieces”, JAMISON THOMAS, NY, NY
“Home for June”, HOME FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATER, NY, NY. Curator Erik Oppenheim
“Three Women,” TOM TAVELLI GALLERY, Aspen,CO.
1990
“The Density Series”, JAMISON THOMAS, NY, NY
“Contemporary Abstract Painting”, HBO INC. HEADQUARTERS, NY, NY
1989
*”Heather Hutchison”, BESS CUTLER, NY, NY
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