Congratulations to Heather Day on her selection for New American Paintings' Pacific Coast Issue #175.
Curated by the legendary Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic for New York Magazine and Vulture, this issue highlights 40 outstanding artists shaping the future of painting on the West Coast.
Competition winners:
Ekta Aggarwal | Miguel Arzabe | Kelly Bjork | Melinda Braathen | Ione Bleu Bustos | J. Carino | Andrea Castillo | Srijon Chowdhury | Vivien Ebright Chung | Alli Conrad | Darren Cortez | Heather Day | Ariel Dill | Rachel Hakimian Emenaker | Edward Emery | Maya Fuji | Yi Gao | Azadeh Gholizadeh | Wendy Heldmann | Skylar Hughes | Rachel Kaye | Victor Lee | Manuel Lopez-Aguilar | Yezi Lou | Jamie L. Luoto | Elizabeth Malaska | Nick McPhail | Ade Ogunmowo | Malavika Rao | Caris Reid | Maria Rendón | Leah Rosenberg | Izik Sahagun | Arvie Smith | Elizabeth Coert Souza | Sol Summers | Yuwei Tu | Mia Weiner | Emily Wise | Rachael Zur
Bio from New American Paintings:
Heather Day is an artist whose paintings build on the traditions of abstract expressionism to explore overlapping themes of sensory perception, memory, and elements of the natural world.
Day builds vast inventories of painted forms that are taken apart, rearranged, and sewn back together in a concert of opposing forces and color fields. This counterproductive process embraces our limited control over chaos and draws the viewer in through rhyming lyrical gestures and harmonizing fields of pigment.
Her paintings, both in form and in color, are meant to challenge our expectations of the everyday experience and encourage the viewer to meditate on their own personal histories. How does the sound of a grating branch in the wind translate to an errant mark? How does a vibrating, painted wash capture raking light in the moments before sunset? This exploration seeks to push boundaries and evoke contemplation about the dynamic relationship between the tangible and the abstract.
