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Email PageMark Heyer: Recent Paintings
January 25, 2007- February 24, 2007
Reception: January 27, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Mark Heyer
Lohin Geduld Gallery
531 W 25th St Mark Heyer No Hands (2006) |
A sense of melancholy and literary timelessness permeates the recent works of Mark Heyer. Open, uninhabited skiffs float aimlessly near the shore as hazy clouds drift in the sky above. A mounted knight ambles through a rustic landscape worthy of Sassetta. Meanwhile a circus performer balances on a white horse, in a perpetual attempt to titillate and entertain. A dirigible cruises past a blood red moon.
In these works Mark Heyer continues to explore narrative in his signature style. With homage to Henri Rousseau and Horace Pippin, Heyer explores a territory of archetypical imagery and deeply felt emotions. These are images that seem to have always been with us, much like a Dylan song that captures a long-past American ethos, or Melville’s timeless biblical creations. Heyer alternates between channeling the romanticism of Albert Pinkham Ryder and telling silly duck jokes à la Groucho Marx. His ability to make us suspend disbelief is a testament to Heyer’s storytelling gifts. With a minimum of means he conjures a world as familiar and strange as our own unconscious. Each painting is lovingly, individually framed by the artist. Heyer’s choice of using distressed patinas on these frames give the work an added air of age and survival. Mark Heyer proves that all stories become new in their retelling.
Mark Heyer received a BA from the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts and an MFA from the Parsons School of Design, New York. His work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, OK Harris Works of Art, New York, J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, Gallery X, New Bedford, Massachusetts, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, and Nemasket Gallery, Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Mark Heyer’s exhibitions have been written about in the New York Times and Art in America. He lives and works in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
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