Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco // August 01, 2024 – September 19, 2024
Big Eye, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 60 x 90 inches
Blue Crevice, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 56 x 47 x 2 inches
Cut, Split, Horizon, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 72 x 56 x 1 1/2 inches
Descending Red, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 32 x 38 x 1 1/2 inches
Falling Channel, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 61 x 47 1/2 x 2 inches
Falling Channel (detail), 2024 Mixed media on canvas 61 x 47 1/2 x 2 inches
Green Chime, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 32 x 38 x 1 1/2 inches
Green Chime (detail), 2024 Mixed media on canvas 32 x 38 x 1 1/2 inches
Indigo Split, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 56 x 47 x 2 inches
Indigo Split (detail), 2024 Mixed media on canvas 56 x 47 x 2 inches
Magenta Curve, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 56 x 47 x 2 inches
Night Driver, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 58 x 58 x 1 1/2 inches
Red Flicker, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 56 x 72 x 1 1/2 inches
Static Edge, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 56 x 47 x 1 1/2 inches
Vanishing Blue, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 52 x 72 x 2 inches
Heather Day moved to the desert and found a new inspiration to create landscape paintings. At first, these works look like abstractions and instinctual gestures, which surely there are elements here that show this. But they often begin to take shape as desert landscapes, earth colors that have the shape of looking across a vast environment, almost as if closing your eyes after looking at the sun and into the arid distance. For her solo show Cut, Split, Horizon on view at Berggruen Gallery, Day is “building on the foundation of pioneering Abstract artists like Helen Frankenthaler, Etel Adnan, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp,” but also seems to channel the Transcendental Painting Group with these environmental meditations. —Evan Pricco
