Willy Heeks
In these recent works, expressly painted for the gallery, Heeks explores complex spatial relationships through the use of pattern, organic line, and sensuous fields of color.
Exhibition Dates: Oct 25, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
Willy Heeks, born in 1951, has gained a national reputation, exhibiting in New York, Los Angeles, and throughout the United States. He received his BFA from the University of Rhode Island in 1973 and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program that same year. He was an NEA fellowship recipient in 1978, 1987, and 1989, received an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant in 2004, and a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant in 1997 and 2001. His work has recently been acquired by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan; and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. He is also in the collection of Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; among others.