Artist Statement:
(on mixed media works)
The concerns investigated in mixed media practice represent a consistent theme: the placement of disparate objects, materials and gestures into juxtapositions unlikely or unexpected offering optional conclusions/conversations/relationships, an ongoing area of interest for me. There is resonance in the relationship of color, surface, texture, edge and tear with the placement of one to the other resulting in unique readings stirring emotional / psychological / physical associations.
It's painting, architecture and collage combining elements of reality into an alchemical brew.
Anyway, that's my story.
Carl Heyward :
is an artist, writer and curator; an NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Fellow and grant
recipient, former MFA instructor at SF Academy of Art University, arts writer and founder of
Global Art Project, a mixed-media collaborative cooperative with a membership in 17 countries.
He has exhibited at Room Art Gallery, Mill Valley, The Fourth Wall Gallery in Oakland, CA,
artist-in-residence at The Schools of The Sacred Heart at The Flood Mansion, San Francisco,
and continues to exhibit internationally: Kranz, Slovenia; Mazatlan, Mexico; Venice, Italy;
Senegal, and Ghent, Belgium, in 2017-2020; in 2019 curated GAP no / MIND East Village Art
View Gallery NYC; 2020 curated and exhibited in CrossingBorders USA at Jennifer Perlmutter
Gallery, Ca; The Fragmented Mind Casa de Cultura de San Lorenzo Madrid, Spain Curator
October 2020; Pulchri Gallery in The Netherlands 2020; Gallerie Renee Marie in THE
AMERICAN HEART OF WINTER through January 2021 (Benicia, Ca) Santiago, Chile March
April 2021 QUARENTENA Galeria Artistas en Pandemica; A BOUNTIFUL MOMENT
@Piedmont Center for the Arts Dec 2021; Artist-Curator Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
REIMAGINING THE GLOBAL VILLAGE (GAP works with Nirmal Raja exhibition curator);
HARVEST two-person exhibition with Akiko Suzuki @ Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette Ca
thru March 26, 2022; STIIIZY Benicia mixed-media works April-May 2022; CONTEMPORARY
REVOLUTION Campo-Santo, Ghent Belgium July 2022; DISTANCE & NEARNESS curator
CASA DE LA CULTURA , Puerto Madryn Chubut Patagonia , Argentina, Feb 2023; FRAGS &
FLARDEN 2023 and 2024 Lier, Belgium MEXX Gallery; YES Lecce, Italy May 2023; STRANGE
BREW group exhibition LIVE WORMS Gallery SF, November 2023.. His work resides in
collections held by SF-MOMA, NY-MOMA, Yale University Art Library, Franklin Furnace, the
National Gallery of Australia, Wellesley Art Library and the Brooklyn Museum. He is associated
with Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, CA; 10dence Gallery, Holland, Galerie Sobo Bade, Senegal,
East Village Art View Gallery, NYC and Pulchri Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands; Sloan
–Miyasato SF Design Center; Michelle Bello Art Consultant; Singulart Platform, France and
Area Environments, Minneapolis, Minnesota.