Heather Day

Heather Day
Heather Day photographed in 2017.
Born Ewa Beach, Hawaii
Education Maryland Institute College of Art
Style Abstract expressionism
Patron(s) Airbnb, J.Crew, SnapChat, Warner Bros., Club Monaco, Chicago Philharmonic
Website http://www.heatherday.com/

Heather Day is an American artist in San Francisco, California.[1][2] Her work has been featured in galleries and private collections in New York City, Madrid, Seoul, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and in the Mission District of San Francisco.[3][4][5]

Career

Day grew up in Hawaii and along the East Coast of the United States.[6][7] She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and art history. Following graduation she moved to San Francisco to expand her studio practice.[8]

Work

Day considers her work a form of visual storytelling, where each painting acts as a page to a larger story about “risk and comfort.”[9] Citing the lines and textures of nature, travel, music and the depth of the color blue as her main sources of inspiration, Day works primarily with paint and non-traditional materials on canvas. She also works in both interior and exterior murals[10] and experimental sculpture. Day painted a commissioned mural at the Dropbox office in Seattle, conveying movement and creating her own canvas by painting over existing design elements such as a moose head sculpture.[11]

Aside from working with traditional painting materials, Day used her process to create the worlds first augmented reality art for Facebook Camera in collaboration with Facebook's Applied Machine Learning group.

Using her social media platform as a vehicle for community discussion, Day addresses feminism, current political events and their impacts on the community, and entrepreneurship.[12]

Day regards Helen Frankenthaler, Katharina Gross, Sam Gilliam, Agnes Martin, Willem DeKooning and Noah Purifoy as admirable artists.[13][14]

Day co-owns a culinary-art startup company called Studio Table,[15] run from Day’s studio space in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.

References

  1. ↑ "Modern Abstract Paintings by Heather Day - Design Milk". Design Milk. 2014-08-28. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  2. ↑ Design&Trend (2015-05-18). "Heather Day Interview: Abstract Painter Explains How Henri Matisse And Travel Have Inspired Her Work [EXCLUSIVE]". Design & Trend. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  3. ↑ Smith, Marina (2015-07-22). "Inside the Vibrant Life of Painter Heather Day". 7x7 Bay Area. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  4. ↑ "Heather Day – Tappan". www.tappancollective.com. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  5. ↑ "Artist Crush: Heather Day & Claire Oswalt - Elements of Style Blog". Elements of Style Blog. 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  6. ↑ "San Francisco-Based Artist Heather Day". www.booooooom.com. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  7. ↑ "Heather Day, Painter". LISA SAYS GAH. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  8. ↑ "Revisiting Heather Day in the Studio – Tappan". www.tappancollective.com. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  9. ↑ "Inside An Artist's Streamlined Work-Live Loft". Lonny. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  10. ↑ "Flax Oakland Mural Heather Day". flaxart.com. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  11. ↑ "Dropbox Seattle Mural by Heather Day at Dropbox Seattle, Seattle". www.wescover.com. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  12. ↑ "Heather Day — She Explores: Women in the outdoors". She Explores: Women in the outdoors. 2016-10-16. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  13. ↑ "Vulnerabilities & Textures :: The Emotional Art of Heather Day | The Hundreds". thehundreds.com. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  14. ↑ "Artist Heather Day on Painting Blindfolded and Finding Success". Lone Wolf Magazine. 2015-08-10. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  15. ↑ "Welcome". Studio Table. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
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