Museo San Fernando de Maldonado Casa de la Cultura
Museo San Fernando de Maldonado Casa de la Cultura
The Inexhaustible Present
Paintings by Priscilla Heine
February 2 - March 6, 2024
Museo San Fernando de Maldonado
Casa de la Cultura
Maldonado · Rafael Perez del Puerto 718
20000 Departamento de Maldonado · Uruguay
Artwork Photos: Claudia Beltran
P A I N T I N G S
photos: Gordian Raacke
“... we begin to sense that Heine’s abiding subject is the unity that underlies life’s infinitely various
forms. She evokes the fullness of being.”
- Carter Ratcliff, the Inexhaustible Present
Untitled (Ochre Blooms Follow a Blaze), 2024, oil on linen, 82”x 48” inches
Untitled, Red, 2024, oil on linen, 82”x 48”
Untitled, Blue Purification, 2024, oil on linen, 84”x 48” inches
“ThebuoyancythatcharacterizesHeine’sartis fueledbyobservation,memoryandthesortsof rhythmsthatpunctuatedailylife”
-Janet Goleas, PriscillaHeine,ParticlestoPlexis
Untitled, (Breeze), 2024, oil on linen, 82”x 48” inches
“Her paintings are records of a real person in real time who is responding, remembering, processing: dreams, appetites, desires, beauty and the grotesque, tranquility and entropy.”
- Amei Wallach, Priscilla Heine: Under the LiliesOysters Filter Impurities, 2024, oil on linen, 82”x48” inches
Nest, 2024, ink on linen, 84”x 48” inches
Woodland
I Sense a Mass?, 2024, oil on linen, 80”x 32” inches
“Lyrical and poetic, Heine merges abstraction and gesture with insinuations of the figure, of nature and of narrative, and the elements settle easily amid flurries of brushwork, cradled like innocence within this artist’s joyful abandon.”
- Janet Goleas, Particles to PlexusLong Love, 2023, oil on linen, 86”x 30” inches
“Heine’s world has the buzzing, peaceful atmosphere of a garden on a pleasant day, and no one could be blamed for simply entering that world and luxuriating there.”
- Carter Ratcliff, The Inexhaustible Present
Garden Regrowth, 2024, oil on linen, 80”x 32” inches
No Baggage, 2024, oil on linen, 80”x 32” inches
Dream Buddy, 2024, oil on linen, 82”x 32” inches
“And she challenges us to become aware of the way we make sense of what we see, how we endow imagery with meaning.”
- Carter Ratcliff, The Inexhaustible Present
Puddle Play, 2023, oil on linen, 56”x 22” inches
Banter, 2024, oil on linen, 82”x 24” inches
BarnyardWash Day, 2024, oil on linen, 80”x 24” inches
Wash, 2024, ink on linen, 80x24”inches
“Come together messy love!”- Priscilla Heine
I Met a Sweet Dog on the Road, 2024, oil on linen, 80”x 24” inches
“Pulsing between tension and release, the sculptures sprout forth from the inside out like vivid, feral bouquets.”- Janet Goleas
S C U L P T U R E
Calla’s Rise I, 2023, mixed and assembled medium 60”x 48”x 48” inches
Calla’s Rise II, 2023, mixed and assembled medium
60”x 48”x 48” inches
mixed and assembled medium
Calla’s Rise II, 2023, (verso) 60”x 48”x 48” inches
Priscilla Heine, Maldonado, Uruguay, 2024
photo: Gordian Raacke
Biography
Education
1969 Art Students League, NYC
1972 Haystack Hinckley School of Arts and Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
1974 Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1974-75 New School, Parsons School of Design, NYC
1975-79 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tufts University, Boston, MA
1979 Awarded BFA, Tufts University, Boston, MA
1979 Awarded 5th-year diploma of painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Selected Solo shows
2024 Museo San Fernando de Maldonado, Centro Cultural Intendencia de Maldonado, Uruguay
2023 Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester. VT
2021 Woodshed Gallery, Bread and Puppet Museum, Glover, VT
2020 Findlay Galleries, NYC, Recent Work
2020 Centro Cultural Espacio Gorlero, Punta del Este, Uruguay, The Pulse of Cala Lilly
2018 -
2016 Findlay Galleries, NYC and Palm Beach, FL
2015 -
2005 Wally Findlay Galleries, NYC and Palm Beach
2012 Islip Art Museum, Particles to Plexus, Islip, NY
2009 Guild Hall, Bloom, East Hampton, NY
2008 Chelsea Hotel, Pool Art with Moki Cherry, NYC
2003 Nasser Nakib Architect, Paintings, NYC
1998 Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1981 Rosenquist Studio, Priscilla Heine, Paintings, East Hampton, NY
2022 Museum of Everyday Life, Bathing, Glover, VT
2022 Cross Contemporary Partners, Seven Sisters, Saugerties, NY
2020 Roadside Drive-By, Art Apart, East Hampton, NY
2019 Parrish Art Museum, Artists Choose Artists, Allan Wexler, juror; Water Mill, NY
2019 Sara Nightingale Gallery, As the Crow Flies; Sag Harbor, NY
2019 Diana Saravia Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay
2018 Southampton Arts Center, A Radical Voice: 23 Women; Southampton, NY
2015-20 Findlay Gallery, New York City and Palm Beach, FL
2014 Guild Hall, New Additions to the Permanent Collection, East Hampton, NY
2014 Wally Findley Gallery, 50 Years on 57th Street, NYC
2007-13 Ashawagh Hall, Invitational, Springs, East Hampton, NY
2011 Islip Art Museum, Flag Day, Islip, NY
2009 Emily Harvey Gallery, A Book About Death, (Traveling Exhibition), NYC
2008 Silas Marder Gallery, The Big Show; Bridgehampton, NY
2007 Ross School Gallery, Through the Eyes of a Dreamer; East Hampton, NY
2007 Guild Hall, Members Exhibition; East Hampton, NY, Awarded Best in Show
2005-15 Wally Findlay Galleries, New York City and Palm, Beach, FL
2005 Wally Findlay Galleries, Momentum, NYC
2005 Wally Findlay Galleries, Lyricism, Palm Beach, FL
1995-04 Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton NY
2003 Ashawagh Hall, Peace Show, Springs, East Hampton, NY
2001 Adelphi University, University Center Gallery, 6 Perspectives, NYC
1998 Navarro Council Art Center, Abstraction: 6 Perspectives, Corsicana, TX
1997 Southampton Arts Council, Salon des Femmes, Southampton, NY
1997 Heckscher Museum, Juried Exhibition, award of honor, Huntington, NY
1995 Heckscher Museum, Juried Exhibition, Huntington, NY
1994 Elaine Benson Gallery,Year, Bridgehampton, NY
1992-93 Bologna-Landi Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1985-89 El Bohio Charas Gallery, NYC
1985 Intar Theatre, Paintings, NYC
1983 Whitney Museum of Art, Nam June Paik, Pyramid Piece, performance opening, NYC
Selected group shows
This exhibition would not be possible without the effort of all of the individuals of La Casa de La Cultura, Maldonado. A special thanks to Jorge Cespedes, Dr. Fernando Cairo, y Ana Guerra. I am forever grateful to Carter Ratcliff for his essay “The Inexhaustible Present”, whose prescient title I have used for this body of work, the first since a blaze has taken all of the past. My thanks to Amei Wallach, and to Janet Goleas whose insightful words and hard work have shined a light on my work. My gratitude to Jen Dragon for her tireless commitment. And forever my abiding gratitude and love to Cristian Majcherski who more than anything ever makes room for me to create and paint.