Heather Gwen Martin, Heights

Heather Gwen Martin

Heights

2 block, 6 color linoleum cut with 8 color screenprint on Magnani Pescia

Price range: $2,000 through $2,280

Heights captures the tension between weight and weightlessness that runs through Heather Gwen Martin’s practice. Heavy forms anchor the composition while bursts of energy flit around them, each element moving at its own speed, carrying its own mass.

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Year
2023
Edition of
25
Dimensions
14.25 x 17 inches
Authentication

Signed, numbered, and dated on the front by the artist. All Haystack editions come with a Certificate of Authenticity.

“There is a fleeting nature to Heights. The heavy forms seem solid with the bits of energy flitting about, but it’s all in motion, with a different speed, a different weight.”

– Heather Gwen Martin

About the Artwork

Heights captures the tension between weight and weightlessness that runs through Heather Gwen Martin’s practice. Heavy forms anchor the composition while bursts of energy flit around them, each element moving at its own speed, carrying its own mass. Nothing is still.

Heights is part of Martin’s first foray into printmaking, created in close collaboration with master printer Phil Sanders at PS Marlowe Studios in Asheville, North Carolina.

Curator's Note

In Heights, we see many biomorphic forms. One form in navy blue arcs over the top of the composition and puts our imaginations out to sea. The yellow drop-like form is under navy blue’s arch, and the small green forms gather. There is a sense of flowing in and out in this colorful abstraction.

About the Artist

A black and white portrait of artist Heather Gwen Martin

Heather Gwen Martin (b.1977, Saskatoon, Canada) is a painter based in Los Angeles who is interested in the human aspect of painting. The colors are hot and bright, nearing hard edge abstraction while maintaining the mark of the hand.  Each shape is poetic, with flourishes of elegant movement akin to dancing.

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