Artist Talk: Holly Hughes and Kylie Heidenheimer, April 16

Wednesday, April 16, 4:45 - 5:45 p.m., Glendening Annex

ARTIST TALK: Holly Hughes and Kylie Heidenheimer

In this joint presentation, artists Kylie Heidenheimer and Holly Hughes will present their creative work and share their distinguished careers in the arts. They will be artists-in-residence in the Artist House during April and will be working on new prints.  

HOLLY HUGHES is an artist with her own shorthand, developed to describe both nature and the humanmade - in short - the visual world surrounding us.  Working in varied mediums, always in conversation with one another, each piece has its own necessary fiction.  Processed through an imagination raised on Disney, the pictures exude both humor and inspiration from the decorative arts.  Codes for the idyllic and pastoral slam against one another in a play of repossessed abstract language, with sources ranging from painting history through heraldry to domestic linens.  The vibration of figure/ground keeps the curious eye moving, as each viewer is invited to piece together their own story or simply enjoy the view.

Hughes works in a black steel studio barn in Columbia County, New York and shows with Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, New York.  She is professor emerita of painting at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and teaches occasional workshops at, among others, Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado and HandShake Press in Ghent.  Her practice ranges across painting, works on paper, printmaking, and ceramics.  Hughes’ work can be found in many corporate, public, and private collections including Citibank, Pepsico, Prudential Bache, Pfizer Collection, Benziger Winery Image Collection, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Dorsky Museum, Freedman Gallery of Albright College and Museum of Rhode Island School of Design.  Her many solo and group shows include Dru Arstark Gallery, David Beitzel Gallery, Piezo Electric, Philippe Briet Gallery, Graham Modern, Anita Shapolsky and John Davis Gallery, and have been reviewed in ARTnews, Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, D’Ars (Milan), Drawing Magazine, Art New England and others.  Travel always has informed her work, and she has done residencies in France and Italy as well as at Art Omi and The Millay Colony. For more information on the artist: https://hollyhughesartist.com/

KYLIE HEIDENHEIMER makes abstract paintings and watercolor monoprints that wrest and twist space. She was born in Gainesville, Florida, grew up in St. Louis and moved to New York where she went to Hunter College and earned her MFA. She has a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. She has a studio on The Lower East Side in New York and also works in Upstate New York. Her work has been in solo shows at J.C. Flowers & Co, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery and The Italian Academy at Columbia University in New York as well as at Galerie Gris in Hudson, New York and Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. 

Heidenheimer won a Mercedes Matter New York Studio School Alumni Award in 2021 and a Jason McCoy Gallery Drawing Challenge in 2020. She was a Janet Sloane Resident at Yaddo in 2020 and also attended Yaddo in 2016 as well as prior residencies at Blue Mountain Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Anderson Center of Disciplinary Studies and The Millay Colony. Heidenheimer has shown in group exhibitions in New York at Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, O’Flaherty’s, 56 Henry Gallery, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, Station Independent, The Hewitt Gallery at Marymount Manhattan College, Equity Gallery, Feature, Inc. and Storefront Bushwick. She has exhibited regionally and nationally in group shows at Private Public Gallery in Hudson, New York; Furnace Art on Paper Archive in Falls Village, Connecticut; Joyce Goldstein Gallery in Chatham, New York; Indiana University’s J. Irwin Miller School of Architecture in Columbus, Indiana; The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York; UT Knoxville’s Downtown Gallery and The Kleinert James Center, Woodstock, New York.  For more information on the artist: https://www.kylieheidenheimer.com