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| CHAMPION GALLERY // JAN 26 // 7-9PM |
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Champion 800 Brazos St Austin, TX 78701 512 354 1035 championcontemporary.com |
| DANIEL HEIDKAMP Glow Drops At The Chill Spot Project Room: JACQUES VIDAL Jan 26 - Feb 25 |
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| Daniel Heidkamp, Alligator Alley, 2012, oil on linen, 52 x 38" |
| Champion is pleased to open the 2012 season with a show of new paintings entitled Glow Drops At The Chill Spot by New York artist Daniel Heidkamp. Alluding to the pleasure of really taking in what is around us within our private, secret places, like backyards or a cabin in the woods, Heidkamp masterfully fuses his en plein air approach with his use of swirling, fleshy, built up impasto. This new group of interior-exterior paintings feature imagery derived from direct observation and is the first time that his non-figurative oeuvre has been shown independent of his portraiture. Heidkamp begins in a particular place – a Florida beach house, a New England mountain lodge, a hilly West Coast yard, or his own Bushwick painting studio. Using oil paint, but often whatever medium is ready-at-hand, such as color pencils, ballpoint pens, and wax crayons, he employs a frenetic focus for hours at a time, but has to work fast enough to capture a myriad of detail before light and environment change. By attempting to render not just what is in front of him, but all around, Heidkamp aims to discover a unique type of light and space elusive to, for instance, a camera's lens. The best of these preparatory works are then used to make more complete paintings. When painting not on-site, but in the more forgiving environs of the studio, Heidkamp spends ample time emphasizing and expanding on peculiar details, paintings within paintings, investigations of color temperature and palette, glowing luminescent sunlight, and varieties of paint surfaces. In this way he indulges the potential of oil paint as a medium, while expanding the narrative possibilities of the pictures. Although the constellation of imagery within these paintings can be pieced together to form narratives particular to Heidkamp, it also renders a universality where the viewer can put themselves in these places and have their own stories unfold. Outside and in, public and personal, illuminated and shrouded, boundless and contained are the tensions of his visually complex paintings, as their presence is off-kilter, loose within parts – where the action of a fleeting moment lingers just beneath the surface. Daniel Heidkamp was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts in 1980 and earned his BFA at the School of the Museum of the Fine Arts in Boston in 2003. Exhibitions include solo shows in Boston and New York, and group shows across the United States and Europe, including shows at Galerie Mikael Anderson, Berlin and Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen. His portraiture is being included in a group show at Freight + Volume in New York this month. Heidkamp currently lives and works in Brooklyn. |