“For Elisabeth Heying, an American artist, material researcher, and educator, Cyprus is a living canvas full of ancient stories waiting to be uncovered. As she explores the island’s archaeological sites and abandoned mines, she collects stones not just for pigments for her paintings but also to uncover centuries-old stories.”
“In these paintings they are both themselves and the image of themselves. This intelligent weaving of meaning and use, buried in the material object, nods to themes in Modernist Art History, but Heying manages to walk a line between sophisticated contextualization and relatable humanism.”
Elisabeth Heying presents her studio practice and material research in the Painting and Drawing Department's Graduate Noontime Lecture series at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on March 31st, 2022.
“Ache of Erosion” asks us to take a closer look at the crumbling walls, loose dirt, or pools of water that act as the filler to our everyday world. It shows us that these overlooked elements are quiet reminders of the constant back and forth pulling, sucking, pushing, and rushing of time that eventually wears everything down.”
‘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 September 16 - October 16, 2021.