Heather Huston: August 2008

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

My faculty profile at ACAD contains a brief CV.

Remade 2008, mezzotint, silkscreen and chine colle

Towards the Edge 2008, lithography, silkscreen and chine colle

I recently participated in a print portfolio on the topic of the oilsands. Click on the link to view my piece and the rest of the portfolio: Pipelines and Borderlines

Update: This portfolio now has a blog as well, see Portfolio Blog

It will be traveling to: Oak Park Illinois, Universidad Autonoma de Guerro, Universidad Loyola del Pacifico and Universidad Americana (all in Mexico), The Alberta Printmakers' Society in Calgary and to Nicaragua in 2009. Sweet!

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

To see my profile at the Lessedra 7th Annal Miniprint in Bulgaria please click on the link: Lessedra Miniprint

The Stealing Space 2008, silkscreen on plexiglass, plastic and mixed media

The Stealing Space (alternate view)

The Porosity of Certain Borders 2008, lithography and silkscreen

Long Sky, Blue 2008, (work in progress) lithography, chine colle, and silkscreen

Twelve Storeys 2007, lithography, silkscreen and relief

Long Days Driving II 2007, lithography and chine colle

Long Days Driving IV 2007, lithography and chine colle

Long Days Driving 2007, lithography and chine colle

Around the Corner 2007, lithography and chine colle

Just Above the Basement 2007, lithography and chine colle

Untitled 2007, lithography and silkscreen

Distances Surround Us 2007, lithography, silkscreen, relief and chine colle

Self-Portrait at the Crux 2007, lithography and silkscreen

Interior 10 2006, lithography and silkscreen on plexiglass, relief, and foamcore

Interior 11 2006, lithography and silkscreen on plexiglass, relief, and mixed media

Interior 3 2005, lithography on plexiglass, collage, pencil and mixed media

Interior 4 2005, lithography on plexiglass, charcoal, pencil, relief and mixed media

Interior 5 2006, lithography on plexiglass, foamcore and wood

Interior 7 2006, lithography, collage and relief on plexiglass, foamcore and wood

Interior 9 2006, lithography and relief on plexiglass with collage and foamcore

No Title 2005, digital, silkscreen, collage and pencil on plexiglass

Three Days 2005, digital, silkscreen, collage and pencil on plexiglass

Untitled (chair) 2005, lithography on plexiglass with mixed media

Untitled (bathtub) 2005, lithography on plexiglass and mixed media

Interior 1 2005, lithography on plexiglass, relief, foamcore, wood.

Desertion 2005, etching, relief and chine colle

Sink 2005, etching and chine colle

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Artist Statement

I have had a longstanding interest in the mundane and finding ways to re-represent it to the viewer in a way that articulates the sense of strangeness that occurs when the familiar is seen out of context. I am interested in the miniature and its inherent reading as a nostalgic and idyllic structure for the eye to consume. If we look to the miniature for the ideal, we find instead in my work a peculiar reflection of everyday living. They are outside the cute, exaggeratedly symbolic domain of the dollhouse and instead exist in a reality where the physical becomes psychological. They open up questions about the ability for interiors and objects to retain the emotional residue of our actions.

I am drawn to the flux of buildings in states of construction, demolition and restoration and in creating ones of my own that are at once caught in the transitory state of becoming or dissolving. The organized chaos of what we, especially as Calgarians, see as construction is halted and gently brought into contact with that of the natural world, a reminder of what is lost as we gain space and property.