This week we welcome Kylie Heidenheimer, a visual artist known for her abstract paintings. Heidenheimer’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Galerie Gris in Hudson, NY, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, in NYC, and Ohio Northern University in Ada, OH, among others.
She has attended several residencies, including at St. Mary’s College in MD, Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY and The Millay Colony in Austerlitz, NY. Her work has been cited in The New York Times and is in collections throughout the United States, as well as Australia and Sweden. She holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from CUNY/ Hunter College. She lives and works in New York City.
“I alternate open, diaphanous areas with pigment pools and incisive marks in my narrative abstract paintings. Varying scales, layers, angles and directions of lines traversing supports reflect this interchange. Soft and hard edges come to blend, align or separate. Diagram-like inflections serve to establish sections that are taut. Rifts form. Collapsed structures build. Formal elements reside either inside supports or run off edges. A dual focus of what is within pieces and outside them emerges. Physicality of supports will either be affirmed or denied. Tensions between infinity and immediacy form,” she writes.
“I use tools from traditional drawing and painting training to realize much of the above. Entrenched marks reflect earlier mosaic study. The incision lines reference intaglio printmaking. The diagrammatic marks are from home economic sewing patterns. Sensibilities in the work can reflect early years in the South and Midwest.
White daylight burst through and past edges of hanging Spanish moss in North Florida. Missouri and Iowa mist or humidity-filled air was dissonant with the vast fields over which it hovered. These tensions are now integral to the paintings in my studio on the Lower East Side.”
See more of Heidenheimer’s work on her website and Instagram.
