NYAB Event - Kelly Heaton "The Parallel Series"

Kelly Heaton "The Parallel Series"

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts

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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts exhibits Kelly Heaton’s The Parallel Series which features landscape paintings that come to life with the sights and sounds of rural Virginia. Electronic circuitry covers the paintings’ surfaces. The sounds – birds, frogs, cicadas, crickets and the like – are generated by Heaton’s analog electronic design, and are not recordings. Works on paper emit simple light or sound effects beside diagrams that explain how each circuit is built, to document and to educate. A portrait of Jesus Christ reverberates with a beating heart and pulsing light. With her newest body of work, Heaton explores the meaning of life through the intersection of nature, energy and spirituality, asking what is lost when the electricity is gone.

This new body of work is a departure from Kelly Heaton’s last exhibition Live Pelt, exhibited at the Feldman Gallery in 2003. Described by the art critic Kim Levin “as conceptually perfect as it is wacky,” the large-scale installation used the popular Tickle Me Elmo doll as a vector to channel information about America’s Pop culture and its historical fur trade. The exhibition featured The Surrogate, a coat fashioned from the pelts and electronics of 64 Elmo dolls, capable of providing full body vibration

Trained in the arts and science, Heaton received her Master of Science degree in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT in 2000.

[Image: Kelly Heaton "Detail from Self Portrait (Resisto Ergo Sum)" (2005 – 2012) electronics, oil, guache and paper on canvas, 39 x 31 in. Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York]