Press Release- Heather Hutchison: Seeker | April 17-May 31, 2025

New York
Heather Hutchison: Seeker
April 17th - May 31st, 2025

Opening reception with the artist: April 17th, 2025, 6pm - 8pm

Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to announce Heather Hutchison: Seeker, its third exhibition of New York-based artist Heather Hutchison. Hutchison’s luminous three dimensional paintings manipulate light, color and shadow to create works that evoke landscapes and weather patterns while remaining in constant flux. The works in this exhibition span from the late 1980s to today. Looking at Hutchison’s ongoing andrecurring study of the natural world’s dynamic force, art critic Eleanor Heartney writes:

From the outside, the boxes are solid, workaday and finite, but inside they seem to have expanded to contain indeterminate depths. Their mysterious contents respond to the surrounding light and change as the viewer moves. Inside the boxes, light emanates from diffuse bands of color, seeps through translucent orbs and bounces off rippling waves. Forms are evoked but refuse to completely resolve. Instead, like half
recovered memories, they conjure the mere suggestion of glowing sunsets, reflective waters, mist covered hills, moonlit plains, low lying fog and recently the blaze and smoke of wildfires and cloud feedback.

Hutchison has long been a keen observer of nature and has for decades been inspired by the human experiences of love, joy, loss and death. Hutchison’s work has always sought movement as a priority, beginning in the late 1980s with her translucent
beeswax pieces, painted on a plexiglass surface covering a shadow box. These paintings utilized the depth and structure of the plywood box, which remained visible and framed them. Hutchison went on to alter the plexiglass itself, scoring and bending
the plane on which she worked. In the past decade she has utilized materials such as gels, tape and mirrors, making the light contained within her pieces more kinetic and illustrating the truism that the only constant is change.

In Bisbee, Arizona, while attending a recent residency at the Central School Project, an organization housed in the same building where she attended elementary school, Hutchison began incorporating orbs, lines, arches and curves into her work, inspired by the play of the light in the Mule Mountains. These pieces emphasize the multidimensional aspect of her work, which has been a constant. In her triptych Night
Break, panels within the boxes boomerang the light through the painted, smokey-green plexiglass. The light moves with the viewer, like the moon on a calm sea. The weightlessness of the piece is anchored by a horizontal lavender band across the
bottom of the three panels.

In the essay accompanying the exhibition “Heather Hutchison’s Living Light”, Eleanor Heartney states, “Transmuting her experiences and emotions into pure light and color, Hutchison creates meditative spaces where we might pause and reinforce our own
connections to earth, sky and spirit.”

Heather Hutchison was born in Corvallis, OR, in 1964. She was raised between coastal Oregon, Marin County and the southern border in Bisbee, Arizona. Her
self-directed studies as an artist brought her from the San Francisco Bay Area to New York City in 1986. She currently works and resides in Woodstock, New York. Hutchison has been included in numerous museum exhibitions including those at the Brooklyn Museum, Montclair Art Museum, the Smithsonian, the Knoxville Museum of Art, and the 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C. Her work is held in several public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Hutchison’s works have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Forum, The Los Angeles Times, Artnews, and Art in America.

Los Angeles

A Survey Exhibition: Louis Stern Fine Arts Through the Decades
9002 Melrose Avenue | West Hollywood, CA  90069
January 27-March 9, 2024
https://www.louissternfinearts.com/exhibitions/a-survey-exhibition-louis-stern-fine-arts-through-the-decades/selected-works1#tab:thumbnails;tab-1:thumbnails
 

Solo Exhibition| Phoenix

November 29 - December 30, 2023 
"Heather Hutchison; From Here to Here"

Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
Reception with the artist: Saturday December 2, 12-2

 

57w57arts "Heavenly Stones and Earthly Stones" April 23 – May 26, 2023

 
www.57w57arts.com
 
Years ago, someone told us that "sensitive people deserve beautiful things." We took that to heart.

For the last nine years, we’ve just shown work that we've liked. It’s been great. We love our community. 

Although this is not the first time we’ve said it, it's likely this show will be the last at 57W57ARTS. 

Thanks for all your support. You will be the first to know if we decide to do this again.

Sue and Al
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Lisa Barense - Low Relief | Heather Hutchison Heavenly Stones and Earthly Stones | Roberley Bell - some things at this distance | Jordan Danchilla - Half Domes | Mark Crawford - Surface Color S(P)ace

April 23 – May 26, 2023
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 23, 1 - 4 pm
 
NEW YORK // MON APR 17 – 57W57Arts is pleased to announce the opening of the final shows, Lisa Barense's Low Relief, Heather Hutchison's Heavenly Stones and Earthly Stones, Roberley Bell's some things at this distance, Jordan Danchilla's Half Domes, and Mark Crawford's Surface Color S(P)ace.

Please join us for an opening reception on Sunday, April 23rd, 1 - 4 pm. The exhibitions and the gallery will be open to the public through May 26th. After May 26, the gallery will be closing its doors. We hope you can join us and support the artists in the last weeks of 57W57Arts.
 
 
 

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