Jenny Heishman
loop, 2016
handmade paper, cording, paint
16 x 16"
Jenny Heishman made this work during a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada. She was entranced by Banff’s paper-making studio, and worked rapidly and spontaneously with pulped cardboard, paint, dyes, string and paper scraps. Heishman combines public and private imagery into conglomerations of highly structured yet increasingly loose and informal combinations of materials. Awkward, disorienting and often catching the viewer off guard, they are, she says, “examples of how art can catch one unaware and challenge our expectations of where art might be or emerge.”