Heather Day Explained

Birth Place:Ewa Beach, Hawaii
Education:Maryland Institute College of Art
Style:Abstract expressionism
Website:http://www.heatherday.com/

Heather Day is an American artist based in California.[1] [2]

Career

Heather Day grew up in Hawaii and along the East Coast of the United States.[3] She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting.[4] Following graduation, she moved to San Francisco to expand her studio practice.[5] Day now lives and works in Southern California.

Work

Day considers her work a form of visual storytelling, where each painting acts as a page to a larger story about “risk and comfort.”[6] Her paintings primarily consist of paint and mixed media on canvas.

Aside from working with traditional painting materials, Day used her process to create the world's first augmented reality art for Facebook Camera in collaboration with Facebook's Applied Machine Learning group.[7]

Her work is included in the collection of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Heather Day Interview: Abstract Painter Explains How Henri Matisse And Travel Have Inspired Her Work [EXCLUSIVE]]. Design&Trend. 2015-05-18. Design & Trend. 2017-03-07. en.
  2. News: Modern Abstract Paintings by Heather Day - Design Milk. 2014-08-28. Design Milk. 2017-03-07. en-US.
  3. Web site: San Francisco-Based Artist Heather Day. Hamada. Jeff. 2015-05-28. www.booooooom.com. en. 2017-03-07. originally from Hawaii.
  4. Web site: The Digital Wheel: Heather Day On Keeping Art First. October 22, 2018. Juxtapoz Magazine. en. 2019-01-03.
  5. News: Inside the Vibrant Life of Painter Heather Day. Smith. Marina. 2015-07-22. 7x7 Bay Area. 2017-03-07. en.
  6. News: Inside An Artist's Streamlined Work-Live Loft. Lonny. 2017-03-07. en.
  7. Web site: Inside Facebook's plan to turn the world into the MoMA. Nieva. Richard. CNET. en. 2019-06-05.