HEATHER HUTCHISON

WEBSITE: HEATHERHUTCHINSON.COM

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Biography

Heather Hutchison is self taught, and has developed and innovated methods and mediums to facilitate her artistic process over 35 years. Notably Hutchison's works incorporate ambient light as a primary material. She shares similar concerns with the Light and Space artists and has spent decades observing and contemplating nature. Hutchison's works capture the essence of the phenomena of light in natural and supernatural environments with an emphasis on the void. Each piece is a direct inquiry into the perceptual experience of color, light, and shadow Hutchison has been included in a number of museum exhibitions; the Brooklyn Museum, Montclair Art Museum, the Smithsonian, the Knoxville Museum of Art as well as being included in the 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Several public collections hold her work including the Brooklyn Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. Hutchison has received grants from the Gottlieb Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Anonymous Was A Woman, and NYFA.

Woodstock

In 1996 my husband, Mark Kanter and I bought our home on the Woodstock side of Saugerties I had never before been to Woodstock, but had become friendly with Michael Lang after he visited my studio in DUMBO Brooklyn, he encouraged me to come up. Driving around, I recognized the Meads Mountain House I saw on the KTD grounds from a dream I had, that I awoke from with a grounded sense of having found a home. I was young, I looked around Woodstock and saw people that I would want to live around, people who I would want to raise a family around if I were to have a family, it reminded me of Mill Valley California in the 1970’s, however only two hours from my beloved NYC! I came down the hill and called Mark at work from a payphone near the green. He had no idea where I was, I told him that I was in Woodstock, his new home. Two weeks later we bought our rst home, we built our studios, we had a child, we raised him here, we’re still in the same house and I continue to meet people here that I want to share my life with