HEINE Priscilla
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Priscilla Heine
BUOYANT ABANDON | Solo Exhibition
SouthernVermont Arts Center
Manchester,VT
February 11 - May 7, 2023
opposite: Priscilla Heine,BougainvilleainMyFace,2020 oil on linen, 72.5 x 53.5 inches
Priscilla Heine, Fleur , 2020, oil on linen, 24” x 24”
Priscilla Heine, Lay Lady, 2021, oil on linen, 24” x 24”
Priscilla Heine, Untitled, 2022, oil on linen, 24” x 24”
Priscilla Heine's abstract paintings and sculptures are exuberant with lush and electric poetry. While unspiraling peace and pleasure, Heine engages in a visual language that is flexible yet complex, heralding an irreverent beauty. Through the use of dynamic calligraphy, rich pigments, organic figuration and layers of personal metaphor, this visual dialogue is lyrical while possessing an uncanny humor. It bends the corners of space with barely identifiable references, creating and embracing connectivity. The power of the whole is always at hand as Heine doesn't so much interpret the world around her as she absorbs it, bringing it to life with swashbuckling energy and reverence.
Priscilla Heine, WhatAreWeLookingFor?
2022, oil on paper, wood dowels
51” x 22”
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SinceIwasquiteyoung,”Heinesays.“Ibelieved thatpaintingisjustarecordingofthattimeand thatmoment.It’saboutbeingverypresent, followinganidea:showingahumanbeing thinkingathoughtandjustfollowingittothevery end.”-- Priscilla Heine in conversation with Amei Wallach
Photo by Quang Anh
Priscilla Heine, Fine, 2022 oil on linen, 80” x 32”
Priscilla Heine, Life’sMachine, 2021, oil on linen on three panels, 80” x 96”
Priscilla Heine, AndThentheRain, 2021, oil and oil stick,graphite on linen 74” x 48”
Priscilla Heine, WeBirds, 2020, oil paint and stick on linen, 80” x 40”
Thereisbuoyancyandlongingincolorand light.Overandoveragainformistakenin gestureanddialogue—thisdance,lightly stepping,nearlyfloating,betweenlongingand buoyancy,buoyancyandlonging--minglingin onebreath. aslevelsofsaturationtravel seamlesslythroughwalls,weremainaliveand hopeful,nourishingstamina,witnessingmagic, bowingtolonging,bowingtobuoyancy.”
- Priscilla Heine
Priscilla Heine, Water, 2020 oil on linen, 80” x 32”
Priscilla Heine, Peek-a-Boo, 2020, oil on linen, 80” x 48”
Priscilla Heine,AllTogetherNow, 2022, oil paint on linen 68” x 80”
Priscilla Heine,Holding, 2021, mixed media, paper mache, 34.5” x 20” x 30”
photo credit: Dave Barnum 2023
“Wildliliescastaspellofbeauty. Whencomeuponinabundance,the eyefollowsvaultingsomersaultsoff stemsintomouths,circlingpistils.I
takeabreathinheaven.Itismyhope thatthismayhappentoyou.Eachof thesepiecesisaridetravelingthelily.
Curiosityandawareness,vanillawalls andsaffronpistons.”
Priscilla Heine
Priscilla Heine,Receiving, 2022 mixed media, paper mache, cement, 40” x 40”x 32”
photo credit: Dave Barnum 2023
Priscilla Heine,BeMySunshine, 2023, oil on board, 8” x 8”
Priscilla Heine, Vessel, 2021, oil on linen, 18” x 14”
Priscilla Heine, GirlGoestoMarket, 2022, oil on board 10” x 8”
Priscilla Heine,ManofMyDreams, 2022, oil on board 10” x 8”
Installation view of PriscillaHeine:BuoyantAbandonat the Southern Vermont Art Center, ManchesterVT
photo credit: Dave Barnum, 2023
Priscilla Heine attended the Arts Students League, Bennington College, Parsons School of Design at the New School, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Since earning her BFA fromTufts University while at the Museum school, in 1979, Heine has shown her work consistently in solo and group exhibitions at the School ofVisual Arts, Emily Harvey Gallery, (NewYork, NY),Wally Findlay Galleries, (NYC and Palm Beach); Heckscher Museum of Art, Islip Art Museum, (Long Island, NY); Ashawagh Hall and Guild Hall, (East Hampton, NY); and Boston City Hall (Boston, MA). Born and raised in NewYork City, Priscilla Heine has recently moved from East Hampton to live full time in her studio and home in Greensboro Bend,VT.
More about the artists and her work: www.priscillaheine.com
Art critic and filmmaker AmeiWallach discusses the poetry of painting with artist Priscilla Heine in this interview.
Visit:https://bit.ly/phienevideo or scan the QR code to view
Many thanks to:
Alison Crites, Manager of Exhibitions & Interpretive Engagement at SouthernVermont Arts Center
Dave Barnum, Exhibition Photographer
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