Heather Lee Birdsong
It Has Always Been This Way
2020 gouache on Arches hot press paper 24" x 18 1/4" Available
It Goes Unsaid
2018 gouache on Arches hot press paper 7" x 10" Sold
We Misconstrued
2018 gouache on Arches hot press paper 10" x 7" Sold
Ineffable Feelings
2017 gouache on Arches hot press paper 10 1/4" x 14 1/8" Available
Exhibitions
Statement
In my work, the geometric figures are stand-ins for people, each shape a character or portrait generalized into anonymity. Their gestures and the spaces between them depict social interactions or internalized feelings, while color and elements of landscape operate as metaphors. I’m particularly interested in subtle emotional exchanges, when small gestures and inflections – or inferred tone, when communicating in text – seem particularly important. It’s often in this subtle space that larger cultural and social hierarchies are expressed in our everyday lives.
