Storied
May 25 - June 25, 2017 | Project Space
Andrea Joyce Heimer
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Installation view, Storied, 2017
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Installation view, Storied, 2017
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Installation view, Storied, 2017
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Installation view, Storied, 2017
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I Remember My Teenage Friendships And Their Mystery And Seduction And How We Believed By Our Own Magic We Could Do The Impossible Like Join Hands And Raise The Dead, And Those Few Breathless Seconds We Shared Before We Were Proven Wrong., 2017
Acrylic and pencil on panel
24 x 30 inches -
Pre-Prom Seance, 1996., 2017
Acrylic and pencil on panel
24 x 18 inches -
A Long Time Ago In Great Falls Montana Where I'm From The Mariana UFO Incident Occurred In Which Three Silver Disks Burned Across The Sky Over A Baseball Diamond And Resulted In The First Video Footage Ever Taken Of UFO Activity And I Still Get The Shakes Thinking About It, The Disks And The Craned Necks And The Dusty August Day., 2017
Acrylic and pencil on panel
24 x 18 inches -
The Johnson Boys Used To Set Off Fireworks In Their Mother's Home, Which Was Too Nice For Them, While We, Who Were Too Nice For The Johnson Boys, Pined Over Them Fiercely From Afar. They Didn't Know We Existed., 2017
Acrylic and pencil on panel
24 x 18 inches -
During Summers The August Sun Baking The Asphalt And Our Skin Was Our Only Proof That We Were, In Fact, Temporary Creatures., 2017
Acrylic and pencil on panel
18 x 18 inches -
When I Was Young My Grandmother Lived Alone In The Mountains And Each September Our Extended Family Would Travel There To Help Her Prepare For A Long Winter, Which I Loved To Do, Except For The Hunting., 2017
Acrylic and pencil on panel
18 x 18 inches
Press Release
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to announce Storied, its first exhibition with Andrea Joyce Heimer.
Heimer’s densely populated paintings are autobiographical ruminations inspired largely by personal experience. The artist, who was a fiction writer before she was a painter, starts her pieces by writing their descriptive and playful titles. Confessional and diaristic, these highly narrative works often detail scenes from Heimer’s adolescence in western Montana, but also encompass events past and present.
Frequently sited in suburbia, Heimer’s paintings foreground the magical elements of everyday life. One such mystical experience is the Mariana UFO incident in Great Falls, Montana, during which some of the first ever footage of an alleged UFO was filmed. Whether depicting UFOs or teenagers getting ready for prom, Heimer aims to foreground how human connection is formed through bizarre experiences in the everyday routine.
Heimer’s almost pictographic work draws inspiration from other story-based forms of art that shirk the illusion of space and instead render figures and objects as flat pattern. Influences include Ancient Greek Black- and Red-Figure vases; Medieval illuminated manuscripts and bestiaries; and Persian miniatures. Her work also shares an affinity with certain traditions of self-taught art including the work of Henry Darger, Horace Pippin, and Grandma Moses.
Andrea Joyce Heimer (b. 1981, Great Falls, Montana) lives and works in Ferndale, WA. She will receive an MFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art in July 2017. Her work has been included in solo exhibitions at Hometown, New York; Antonio Colombo Gallery, Milan, Italy; and CG2 Gallery, Nashville, among others. Heimer has shown in group exhibitions at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK; Athen B. Gallery, Oakland; Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles; Maxwell Colette Gallery, Chicago; Shooting Gallery, San Francisco; and Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, among others. She has been awarded the 5790 Award as well as residencies at idrawalot Collective in Berlin and the Cornish Collage of the Arts in Seattle.