Historical April–May 2010 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Patty Heyda, who lives on the 6100 block of Washington, is an architectural designer, artist, and teacher of architecture and urban design at Washington University Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. Heyda’s first soloshow of paintings, curated by W. Elysse Newman (a central west-end resident and colleague) is currently at “Art St. Louis” Gallery, 555 Washington, # 150, through April 22.
The gallery is free and open to the public 10-5 M-F and 10-4 Saturdays.
This exhibit features a series of 2 large paintings (the ‘original’ landscapes), the digital captures (print reproductions of portions of the larger pieces), and 14 smaller paintings (successive details).
The work develops from the idea of how the digital image enhances what the eye can see.
The small paintings are details taken from digital photographs of thelarger original work. Subsequent images are digitally photographed from the second-order copy until the series is completed as a nested set of images.
The work plays with ideas of originality, digital-visual schema and organic fractal structures.
The artist says, “Reinventing paint through the visual schema of the digital is a current theme. Early in my explorations, I fixed on the gesture of application of paint as an expression of movement.
My subject matter is the landscape. What interests me is not the static or framed view of the land, but landscape as a constantly changing and dynamic field. Landscape in this case is also a landscape of memory as the scenes are from childhood places.
The process of reconstructing the view is a way of shifting between a preserved specimen of the past and the constantly changing abstract mental imagery of the present.
The purposeful reduction through isolation of a select piece of the nominal original is a movement away from an embodied view to an abstract image no longer connected to the place.” For more information, call 241- 4810 or go to artstlouis.org.
Original photograph caption
Patty Heyda Window Zoom Capture exhibition announcement with original artwork. Artwork Patty Heyda; reproduction photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, April–May 2010.
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Original source: SD_Times2010_04.pdf, printed page(s) 7; PDF page(s) 7.
