Elisabeth Heying

SAIC SHOWS 2022 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

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SAIC SHOWS 2022 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Painting and Drawing

Elisabeth is an artist, material researcher, and educator. Her paintings explore place, landscape, and surface as records of and containers for human experience. Born in Minnesota, Elisabeth has been living and working in Chicago, IL since 2011. She received her BFA from SAIC in 2015, and is excited to complete her MFA in Painting & Drawing in 2022. Elisabeth is the director of a state of the art facility called StudioLab, where she has been educating students on how to make and use traditional and modern painting and drawing materials for six years. Elisabeth received the Roads Scholarship for Research and Travel in 2020, has presented her work in many group exhibitions throughout the Chicago area, and debuted her first solo exhibition, Ache of Erosion, at SITE Galleries in 2021.

Artist photographed in her solo exhibition, Ache of Erosion

Elisabeth Heying - Grout and Fault Lines

Grout and Fault Lines, 2021, Oil on canvas, 52 x 30 in.

Altar as Alter II, 2021, Treasures on top of egg tempera and pastiglia on cradled panel, 4 x 20 x 20 in.

Sediment/Sentiment I, 2021, Egg tempera on muslin laminated panel, 10 x 8 in.

Elisabeth Heying - Constructed Diversion (Slip Through My Fingers) I

Constructed Diversion (Slip Through My Fingers) I, 2021, Perlite, erosion blanket, and acrylic on canvas, 29 x 32 in.

Video documentation of Ache of Erosion: a solo exhibition by Elisabeth Heying. SITE 280 Gallery, Chicago, IL. September 16 – October 16, 2021.

Ache of Erosion: A Conversation took place as a Zoom webinar on October 6th, 2021 at 12pm. Elisabeth Heying and Andrew Falkowski discussed the material and metaphor in Elisabeth’s solo exhibition, Ache of Erosion, on view in the SITE 280 Gallery.

My work seeks to answer the following question: how do the intrinsic identities of material shape our connection to place and creation? This inquiry is reflected in my technical studio pursuits, as well as in the poetic resonance of my subject matter. I make paintings with tactile surfaces that are generated from my deep exploration and research of the materials and techniques of paint. The varied material use in my work engages ideas of artifice, perception, and sensory manifestation of truth. The subject matter in my work is inspired by the coevolution of natural and synthesized processes that I observe in my surroundings, from the infinitesimal to the colossal.

I view landscape, place, surface, and all resulting matter as evidence and record of the narratives which have unfolded upon it. My paintings crystalize the cosmos of the commonplace, offering viewers the opportunity to examine our fleeting reality in tangible form and to open their eyes to the embedded meaning of our physical existence.

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