Heather Day

California-based artist Heather Day floods pigment across and into heavily worn canvases. The painted canvases are often cut and stitched, propagating recurrent, reformed markings between paintings. Her work explores the boundaries of intention and the opposing forces of control and chaos, often propelled by both chance and muscle memory.

Along with painting, Day also explores the ways a traditional analog medium can be reinterpreted through a digital lens, blending pigment and pixels, and documenting the lifecycle of a painting as it comes together to combine physically painted marks with digital brush strokes. This work consists of digital animations, often projected. 

Heather Day lives and works in California. She received a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Day has exhibited work at institutions such as Fort Wayne Museum of Art, The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids and The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MOCA). Recent gallery shows include solo exhibitions at Diane Rosenstein Gallery in Los Angeles and Anna Zorina Gallery in New York. This winter, Day’s exhibiting at Zona Maco in Mexico City.

B. 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii; Lives and works in California.