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BENDS |
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These sculptural forms in the post-minimalist tradition utilize the language of painting and are capable of seeming to be in constant flux. Molded by hand from clear sheets of acrylic and bent at complex angles that curve back into the wall and hang as if suspended by nothing. Naturally occurring projections from light sources create lines that appear to incise the wall. Simultaneously, the reflected color from the painted surface is also projected.
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BOXES |
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"As much light sculpture as painting, the 3-dimensional shadow box, constructed of plywood and enamel, creates a vision chamber that literally takes light captive and lets it radiate omnidirectionally through the attached Plexiglas surface. Thin layers of wax and pigment, brushed uniformly on the surface, act both to catalyze and diffuse the tempered light, bringing about a deep vibrancy of hue and value. The result is a rare non-coercive, indeed responsive, art form, in which color-luminosity registers the changing natural light specific to any moment of a given day. To experience this is to get a direct and very real sense of the scientific truism that the only constant is change." - George Quasha, 2006
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1990's |
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"Heather Hutchison’s paintings engage the viewer much like Proust’s madeline affected his narrator. They trigger the memory by stirring the senses. The beeswax gives the surface a sensuous tactility that exudes a faint scent. Because of the way they are built light moves not only across them, but through them. Shapes and colors change as the light moves. Opacity replaces transparency, shadows lengthen and fall. The play of light makes moments seem vaguely familiar to the viewer’s own experience.
Over the past six years, Hutchison has developed a visual language that uses components of painting such as light, color and depth to express intangible aspects of life such as emotion, memory and the passage of time. The format chosen to achieve these goals - a box frame with a plexiglas surface painted with wax- relies on the literal to evoke the ethereal. Translucency - essential for the conveyance of light Hutchison desires - is implicit in the use of plexiglas and wax. Color comes through pigment added to the wax or more subtly painted inside the box. Depth is not only implied, it exists literally in the box, which stands out from the wall."
- Sue Scott, 1995
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1980's |
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"In Hutchison’s work, Minimalist reduction serves not to suppress metaphor and association but to enhance it. The basic geometry of the compositions sets off the evocative quality of the materials, which bring to mind such natural elements as light, water, ice, tar and earth. These associations are encouraged by such titles as Eclipse or Haze. Following the lead of Eva Hesse or Christopher Wilmarth, Hutchison demonstrates that Minimalism and metaphor do not make such an odd couple after all." —Elanor Heartney, Art News 1989
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Videos of Installations |
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