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Almine Rech

Heather Day A Moving Window

Mar 2 — Apr 20, 2024 | Paris, Matignon

Opening on Saturday, March 2, 2024 from 6 to 8 pm

Almine Rech Paris is pleased to present A Moving Window, Heather Day's first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from March 2 to April 20, 2024.

Heather Day makes large-scale abstract canvases dappled with the transmuting shades of the natural world. Far from literal evocations of the infinitely mutable atmospheric conditions that she observes at dawn and dusk in her high desert studio, Day’s works take apart and reassemble the medium in order to obliquely but evocatively depict the passing of time and the shifting of seasons. Titled A Moving Window, this exhibition explores the artist’s immersion in the quotidian yet profound environmental changes that happen every day outside her window. This presentation includes a new group of works from Day’s “Scattering Light” series, first begun in 2022, that examines the ways in which light is refracted through cloud formations. The artist probes the myriad ways that elevation and wavelength impact how this light is received by the human eye. With her saturated, pooling hues of deep red, blue, and orange, the artist interrogates how color and light leave an emotional residue, how sensory perception is intimately entwined with memory and affect.

Working in the legacy of abstract expressionist Color Field painting, Day starts by pouring acrylic over the surface, allowing the pigment to wash and puddle. As she adds different colors, the tints spread and interact with each other, spurring alchemical interactions that are shaped by humidity and the hour of the day. Utilizing supports that far exceed her own height, the artist performatively engages her compositions, continually moving and shifting the canvas, which acts as a stage for not only basins of paint, but the outsized brush marks that sweep briskly across negative space. In some stretches, Day’s stains rest thinly on the canvas, the texture of dyed fabric. In other sections, multiple layers of coloring result in thick heaps. The tension between these consistencies propels the eye around the frame, as do the final chunky dashes and scrapes of paint that dot the surface.

— Ashton Cooper, curator, writer and art historian

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Selected artworks

  • Heather Day,                                      Viridian Window, 2024

    Heather Day Viridian Window, 2024

    Mixed media on canvas
    142.2 x 182.9 cm
    56 x 72 in

  • Heather Day,                                      Cadmium Window, 2024

    Heather Day Cadmium Window, 2024

    Mixed media on canvas
    142.2 x 182.9 cm
    56 x 72 in

  • Heather Day,                                      Magenta Window, 2024

    Heather Day Magenta Window, 2024

    Mixed media on canvas
    142.2 x 182.9 cm
    56 x 72 in 

  • Heather Day,                                      Lavender Window, 2024

    Heather Day Lavender Window, 2024

    Mixed media on canvas
    142.2 x 182.9 cm
    56 x 72 in 

  • Heather Day,                                      Cerulean Window, 2024

    Heather Day Cerulean Window, 2024

    Mixed media on canvas
    157.5 x 228.6 cm
    62 x 90 in

  • Heather Day,                                      Turning Sky, 2024

    Heather Day Turning Sky, 2024

    Mixed media on canvas
    142.2 x 119.4 cm
    56 x 47 in

  • Heather Day,                                      Turning Sky no. 2, 2024

    Heather Day Turning Sky no. 2, 2024

    Mixed media on canvas
    142.2 x 119.4 cm
    56 x 47 in

  • Heather Day,                                      Turning Sky no. 3, 2024

    Heather Day Turning Sky no. 3, 2024

    Mixed media on canvas
    142.2 x 119.4 cm
    56 x 47 in

  • Heather Day,                                      Window Study, 2024

    Heather Day Window Study, 2024

    Mixed media on canvas
    30.5 x 27.9 cm
    12 x 11 in

  • Heather Day,                                      Window Study no. 2, 2024

    Heather Day Window Study no. 2, 2024

    Mixed media on canvas
    30.5 x 27.9 cm
    12 x 11 in

  • Heather Day,                                      Window Study no. 3, 2024

    Heather Day Window Study no. 3, 2024

    Mixed media on canvas
    30.5 x 27.9 cm
    12 x 11 in

  • Heather Day,                                      Window Study no. 4, 2024

    Heather Day Window Study no. 4, 2024

    Mixed media on canvas
    30.5 x 27.9 cm
    12 x 11 in

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