Willy Heeks
dal 2/7/2008 al 15/8/2008
Segnalato da
2/7/2008
Willy Heeks
Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco
In his recent paintings, he further explores complex spatial relationships through the use of pattern, organic line, and sensuous fields of color. He builds the surface with lush paint of vibrant colors in bold brush strokes over atmospheric passages.
American painter, Willy Heeks, opens a solo exhibition at Brian Gross Fine Art on
July 3, with an opening reception on Thursday, July 10 from 5:30-7:30 pm. Heeks,
based in Rhode Island, has been creating luminous abstract paintings for over thirty
years. In recent paintings, he further explores complex spatial relationships
through the use of pattern, organic line, and sensuous fields of color. The
exhibition continues through August 16, 2008.
In oil and acrylic on canvas, Willy Heeks makes sophisticated, intuitive paintings.
He builds the surface with lush paint of vibrant colors in bold brush strokes over
atmospheric passages. Bright, quirky shapes and playful lines hover over romantic
ethereal spaces, referencing nature and hinting at narrative that quickly dissolves.
With Heeks' practiced hand, an underlying framework grounds the chaotic, variegated
marks, and this structure balances the gestural abstraction and forms in these
weighty, elaborate compositions.
Willy Heeks, born in 1951, has gained a national reputation, exhibiting in New York,
Los Angeles, and throughout the United States. He received his BFA from the
University of Rhode Island in Kingston in 1973 and attended the Whitney Museum of
American Art Independent Study Program that same year. He was an NEA fellowship
recipient in 1978, 1987, and 1989, received an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Grant in 2004, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1997 and 2001. His work
has recently been acquired by the Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Museum
of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan; and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. He is
also in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art; among others.
Reception: Thursday, July 10, 5:30-7:30 pm
Brian Gross Fine Art
49 Geary Street, 5th Floor - San Francisco
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10:30-5:30, Saturday 11-5
Free admission