‘Cut, Split, Horizon’

Solo show with Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 2024

Excerpt taken from Berggruen’s press release:

”Berggruen Gallery is proud to announce Heather Day: Cut, Split, Horizon, an exhibition of new work by American artist Heather Day. This show marks her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Heather Day: Cut, Split, Horizon will be on view from August 1 through September 19, 2024.

In her paintings, Heather Day explores landscape, the figure, memory, and sensation through surges of unabashed color, cut and sewn into biomorphic shapes which split and commandeer the canvas. At once harmonious and confrontational, Day’s paintings tangle with the relationship between the material and the conceptual, considering the indescribable phenomena which define our emotional and sensorial perceptions of our surroundings. In some respects a nomadic artist—while Day grew up in Hawaii, she was previously based in Chicago, Baltimore and San Francisco, and now lives and works in the Mojave Desert—Day frequently mines her surrounding landscape for artistic inspiration, translating them into flowing washes deliberately arranged to incite the phenomenological experiences offered by these environments, rather than their objective realities. Her paintings simultaneously investigate the relationship between perception and memory through a unique process defined by abstraction and reconstruction.”