Heide Fasnacht (born 12 January 1951) is a New York City-based artist who works in sculpture, drawing, painting and

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.Glueck, Grace
"Heide Fasnacht: These Things Happen,"
''The New York Times'', November 6, 1998. Retrieved April 19, 2021.Whitney, Kathleen. "Love Gas and Invisible Objects: Heide Fasnacht’s Recent Sculpture," ''Sculpture'', March 1999, p. 24–9.Carlock, Marty. "Heide Fasnacht, Bernard Toale Gallery," ''Sculpture'', September 2006. Her work explores states of flux, instability and transformation caused by human action (architectural and cultural change, war, economics) and natural events (weather, geological processes).Princenthal, Nancy. "Heide Fasnacht: Exploded View," ''Art in America'', February 2001, p. 124–9.Waxman, Lori
"Heide Fasnacht: Kent Gallery,"
''Artforum'', June 7, 2005. Retrieved April 21, 2021.Cullen, Cathy
"Vantage Points: Three Works at Socrates Sculpture Park,"
''Hyperallergic'', July 11, 2015. Retrieved April 21, 2021. Since the mid-1990s, she has been known for sculptures and drawings that recreate momentary phenomena such as sneezes, geysers and demolitions—in sometimes abstract or cartoony form—that are temporally and spatially "frozen" for consideration of their aesthetic, perceptual, social or sensate qualities.Hebron, Patrick. "Both Sides Now: Bruce Conner’s ''Crossroads'' and Heide Fasnacht’s ''Explosion''," ''Bard College Journal of the Moving Image'', Spring 2005, p. 45–9.Stoppani, Teresa. "Heide Fasnacht: Suspect Terrain" essay "Suspended Time" ''Lo Squaderno: Stratifications, Folds, De-stratifications'', September 2015. In the late 2010s, she has expanded these themes in paintings that examine lost and neglected childhood sites, such as playgrounds and amusement parks.Princenthal, Nancy. ''Heide Fasnacht: Past Imperfect'', Allentown, PA: Muhlenberg College, Martin Art Gallery, 2019.Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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Artists. Retrieved April 15, 2021. ''ARTnews'' critic Ken Shulman has described her work as "chart ngthe fluid dialogue between second and third dimensions, motion and inertia, creation and ruin."Shulman, Ken. "Heide Fasnacht," ''ARTnews'', March 2006. Fasnacht has been recognized with a

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and awards from the

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Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation was established in 1976. It is an American nonprofit organization that provides funding for the arts. History The Gottlieb Foundation was established after Adolph Gottlieb’s death in 1974. Esther Gottlieb ...

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, and

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, among others.John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
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Artists. Retrieved April 22, 2021. Her work belongs to the permanent collections of institutions such as the

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, and

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.Brooklyn Museum
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Artists. Retrieved April 22, 2021.Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Artists. Retrieved April 22, 2021.Philadelphia Museum of Art

Collections. Retrieved April 22, 2021.Socrates Sculpture Park
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Artist. Retrieved April 15, 2021.

Work and reception

After receiving early recognition for her abstract sculpture in the 1980s, Fasnacht began creating stop-action-like sculpture and precise drawings of ephemeral, sudden or violent events in the mid-1990s, based on photographs from dated science textbooks and magazines.Westfall, Stephen. Review, ''Arts'', February 1986.Princenthal, Nancy. Review, ''Art in America'', November 1998.Curtis, Cathy. "Shaping Up: Heide Fasnacht," ''Los Angeles Times'', February 23, 1990. Critics connected them to work by

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Sigmar Polke Sigmar Polke (13 February 1941 – 10 June 2010) was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s ...

and

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, but distinguished Fasnacht by her translation of two-dimensional sources into sculpture (rather than painting) that was "emphatically handmade" and open to fantasy, slippage of meaning, and abstraction.Rubinstein, Raphael. "Heide Fasnacht: A Poetics of Catastrophe," ''Heide Fasnacht: Strange Attractors'', Richmond, VA: Virginia Commonwealth University,

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, 2003.Princenthal, Nancy. "Blast Zones: Heide Fasnacht’s Recent Drawings," ''Art on Paper'', September–October 1999, p.44–8. Fasnacht's work plays with space, scale and time and in this sense relates to 1970s art that engaged in phenomenological explorations of experience, perception and objectivity.McDaniel, Craig and Jean Robertson
''Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art After 1980''
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 111–3, 145. Retrieved April 16, 2021. Nancy Princethal notes its focus on events that "fall at the threshold of visibility, in the realm of things that, while not imperceptible are more or less impossible to visualize in any stable, conventional way." Working at table-top to larger-than-human scale, Fasnacht has depicted cataclysmic events in miniature and minor experiences (e.g., sneezes) at great magnification, creating dissonances that lend moral ambiguity, paradox, and a sense of the absurd to her art. Her work's suspension of time converts moments of violence, loss or catharsis into objects of contemplation—of visual pleasure, danger, wonder, intellectual stimulation, foreboding or, paradoxically, humor—that Raphael Rubinstein described as "a kind of poetics of catastrophe." Her later paintings approach time differently, collapsing change and loss in the built environment across decades in single images.

Abstract sculpture (1977–1995)

Fasnacht initially worked within the materials and process-oriented language of

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, producing abstract, mixed-media wall reliefs that were also informed by Constructivist geometry and

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.Glueck, Grace. Review] ''The New York Times'', October 21, 1983, Sect. C, p. 27. Retrieved April 19, 2021.Zimmer, William
"Winners on Parade at the Neuberger,"
''The New York Times'', May 11, 1986, Sect. 11WC, p. 22. Retrieved April 19, 2021.Nadelman, Cynthia. "Gabo’s Progeny," ''ARTnews'', December 1987. They often consisted of built-up planes of raw, painted and distressed laminated wood in combinations of cones, ovals on tilted axes, globes or spirals that ''The New York Times'' described as bristling with energy, impulsive and balletic.Kimmelman, Michael. Review, ''The New York Times'', November 23, 1990, Sect. C, p. 4. Retrieved April 19, 2021.Brenson, Michael

''The New York Times'', November 1, 1985, Sect. C, p. 1. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
''The New York Times'', November 18, 1988. Sect. C, p. 28. Retrieved April 19, 2021. In the later 1980s, she shifted to spiky, skeletal, machine-like freestanding works that critics related to the early Modernism (art), modernist interest in circuses, sideshows and performance.Brenson, Michael
"Heide Fasnacht at Germans van Eck,"
''The New York Times'', May 6, 1988. Retrieved April 19, 2021.Russell, John

''The New York Times'', May 12, 1989. Retrieved April 19, 2021. Her early 1990s work signaled a turn to the human body, with slow, pensive objects made of rusted iron or sheets of thick rubber whose drooping forms conjured tongues (''Terra Lingua'', 1990) or peeling skin.Borum, Jennifer P
"Heide Fasnacht at Germans van Eck,"
''Artforum'', March 1991. Retrieved April 19, 2021.

Photography-based work (1996– )

Fasnacht broke from overtly abstract work around 1996 in transitional wall reliefs that used preexisting schematic renderings and photographs of star clusters or land masses as a point of departure (e.g., ''Strange Attractors'', 1997).Heide Fasnacht website
Sculpture & Installation
Retrieved April 28, 2021. In subsequent sculpture and drawings, she borrowed from stop-action photographs of explosive forces involving wind, air, movement and space. Among the first was ''Little Sneeze'' (1997), a delicate sculpture with clumps of black and white polymer clotted around radiating vectors of wire, which issued from a wall. This work developed into larger works created by spraying neoprene through wire mesh that erupted from floors in a more unruly fashion: the graphite-coated ''Big Bang'' (1998) and ''Explosion'' (1998), which delineated different types of smoke in black, gray and white. Two installation-like works from 2000 were later noted for their uncanny prophetic quality in light of the subsequent 9-11 attacks.Princenthal, Nancy. ''Heide Fasnacht: Drawn to Sublime'', New York: Kent Gallery, 2003. ''Demo'' froze the implosion of a building in mid-air, complete with highly textured, blackened falling bricks and signage letters, flying shards and oozed neoprene smoke resembling popcorn; it references vanished 1950s landmarks from Fasnacht's native

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. The more violent and unsettling ''Exploding Plane'' offers a complex sense of space, drawing viewers' eyes into, around and through the work and its aluminum-gray scattering parts (including suitcases) suspended in midair.Kelly, James J. ''The Sculptural Idea'', Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2004, p. 109–11.McQuaid, Cate
"Breaking down the beauty of Styrofoam,"
''The Boston Globe'', March 28, 2008. Retrieved April 19, 2021. After 9/11, Fasnacht turned from explosions to more celebratory and meditative drawings of civic parades and fireworks, exploding champagne bottles, and water occurrences that suggested both mourning and renewal.McQuaid, Cate. "With explosions, sculptor blows up the concept of illusion," ''The Boston Globe'', November 4, 2005. Between 2005 and 2008, Fasnacht created a series of perceptually challenging wall and floor drawings/installations executed in tape, which collapsed gallery and drawing spaces with anamorphic optical effects that read like dematerialized architectural renderings.Hirsch, Faye. "Heide Fasnacht at Kent," ''Art in America'', October 2007. The centerpiece of one show, ''Jump Zone'' (2005–8), occupied a corner, exploiting perspective and visual illusion to suggest a solid, three-dimensional object exploding outward with flying girders and popcorn-like smoke and detritus; ''ARTnews'' described it as a "masterly representation of anxiety and disorientation." Similar works include ''New City'' (2007), which featured three wall drawings of exploded, skeletal one-room buildings with studs, beams and partial sheathing visible, and ''Stack'' (2008, Smack Mellon), which extended off corner walls onto the gallery floor.Stoppani, Teresa. "The Architecture of Explosive Slowness," ''Lo Squaderno: Space-Time-Speed'', December 2012. p. 9–14.Cole, Lori
"Site 92: Phase II,"
''Artforum'', February 11, 2008. Retrieved April 21, 2021. From 2008 to 2012, Fasnacht researched and examined the historic pilfering and destruction of artistic and cultural materials during times of war and authoritarian repression, from

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to the Taliban’s destruction of the

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.Miller, Leigh Anne
"The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won’t Want to Miss,"
''Art in America'', April 5, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2021.Giovannotti, Micaela. ''Heide Fasnacht: Nothing Lasts Forever'', ''Editions'', 2014. This work culminated in her show "Loot" (Kent Gallery, 2012), which featured black-and-white historical images of seized artifacts and personal effects, store rooms and rubble that she digitally altered and cut out, in formats from small framed pieces to wall-sized installations. In later work, Fasnacht continued to explore architectural, geological and cultural instability.''Artnet''
"Sculptor Heide Fasnacht on the Ephemerality of Our Built Environment,"
News, August 11, 2015. Retrieved April 21, 2021. ''Suspect Terrain'' (2014–5) was a 50-foot-wide temporary installation commissioned for Socrates Sculpture Park, which derived from a photograph of a massive sinkhole that opened in Guangzhou, China.Stoppani, Teresa. "Suspended Time,
"Heide Fasnacht: Suspect Terrain"
Long Island City, NY: Socrates Publishing, 2015. Retrieved April 21, 2021. It was constructed out of jagged, centrifugally sloping plywood plates atop exposed struts, out of which a peaked-roofed house shaded with raster dots and surrounded by irregularly placed painted cracks appears to sink. Functioning like a low-tech playground or stage set, it provided spectators the visceral, unprescribed experience of safely traversing a natural disaster, while using plate tectonics as a means of questioning notions of stability, the reliability of appearances and perception. ''New Frontier'' (2015) and ''Sands Debris'' (2017-18) depicted the aftermaths of two Las Vegas hotel/casino demolitions, referencing material transformation and the volatility of boom economies and architecture.

Works on paper (1996– )

Fasnacht has made consistently drawings alongside—rather than as preparation for—parallel sculpture and installation series.Heide Fasnacht website
Works on Paper
Retrieved April 28, 2021. Her drawings have been noted for their refinement, drafting skill and varied mark-making, which can include crosshatching, newsprint-like rendered dots and actual holes, among other techniques.Pepe, Sheila
Eruptions Galore,"
''Gay City News'', June 1, 2005. Retrieved April 19, 2021. Critics have compared them to

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landscapes or

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grid paintings that metamorphose upon close inspection, the Pop-Conceptualist hybrids of Sigmar Polke, and the drawings of

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, which render transient qualities as sculptural or stable. Her drawing series include: "REM" (1996–7), constellation-like graphite works based on eye-movement charts observed in viewers of famous paintings; the colored-pencil and graphite "Explosions/Implosions" (1997–2003); "The ERR Project" (2007–8), depicting looted artifacts in artist's tape and dry transfer textures on vellum; the graphite and colored-pencil "Book Burnings" (2009–13); and the colored-pencil and graphite "Casinos" and "Casino Countdowns" (2015–7), which depict Las Vegas demolition sites, fireworks and light shows.

Paintings (2018– )

In 2018, Fasnacht returned to her first medium of painting, producing haunting, photo-based mixed-media works that explore changes to the built environment over time.Nicholson, Paul M. "Introduction," ''Heide Fasnacht: Past Imperfect'', Allentown, PA: Muhlenberg College, Martin Art Gallery, 2019. Her "Dead Resorts" and "Lost Architecture" series (both 2018) featured buildings, malls, theme parks and bars that were collaged, drawn and painted on a range of surfaces (colored floor tiles, vinyl, wood, Polystyrene, cardboard) in lyrical or graphic, blueprint-like fashion.Heide Fasnacht website
Paintings
Retrieved April 28, 2021. The "Playgrounds & -topias" series (2019–20) focuses on the ghosts of rural or suburban, 1950s and 1960s sites of childhood play: swing sets, seesaws, rollercoasters and jungle gyms that explore memory and fallibility, possibility and danger, loss and "unclaimed reminiscences," according to Nancy Princenthal. The large, often nocturnal paintings retain Fasnacht's interest in the dissolution of matter and the kinetic; they convey a bodily sense of gravity-defying exhilaration modulated by nostalgia and melancholy, as well as disorientation created by distorted spaces that flip, roll and sometimes dissolve into the snow of old TV screens. Painted on grounds of digitally manipulated, tiled inkjet prints of Internet images, their surfaces are activated by layered passages of brushy paint, invented structural elements, and occasional, sketchy notional figures. Works such as ''Big Jungle Gym'' and ''Invertigo A and B'' offer scaffold-like, skeletal tangles of bars, ladders to nowhere and struts, while others present the spooling, elliptical shapes of rollercoasters (e.g., ''Turbulence'' or ''Alpen Geist'').

Education and career

Fasnacht was born in

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in 1951 and studied art at the

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and

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.The New School Parsons
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Faculty. Retrieved April 15, 2021. She began exhibiting regularly with her first solo show at PS1 in 1979, followed by others at the

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, Vanderwoude-Tananbaum Gallery and Germans van Eck Gallery (both New York) in her first decade.Litt, Steven. "Sculptor Soars Artistically," ''Cleveland Plain Dealer'', June 18, 1992.Mahoney, Robert. "Heide Fasnacht at Germans Van Eck," ''Arts'', February 1991. She subsequently had solo exhibitions at the Bernard Toale Gallery (Boston, 1996–2007), Bill Maynes Gallery (1997–2000) and Kent Gallery (2003–12) in New York,Goodman, Jonathan. "Heide Fasnacht at Bill Maynes," ''Art in America'', October 1997.Nadelman, Cynthia. "Heide Fasnacht: Kent," ''ARTnews'', Summer 2003, p. 155–6.

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(2000) and

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(2004, mid-career retrospective), among others.Stoops. Susan L. "BLOWUP: Recent Sculpture and Drawings by Heide Fasnacht," Catalogue, Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 2000.Bustard, Clarke. "Flash Point: Artist Captures Moments Full of Catastrophic Beauty," ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'', October 3, 2004. She has been featured in

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and group exhibitions at the

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,Smith, Roberta
"'Mapping', Museum of Modern Art,"
''The New York Times'', October 14, 1994, Sect. C, p. 28. Retrieved April 19, 2021.

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at the Equitable Center,

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and

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.Smith, Roberta
"Off the Gallery Path,"
''The New York Times'', November 28, 1997. Sect. E, p. 37. Retrieved April 19, 2021. She has taught fine arts at

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since 1995 and been an instructor at

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and

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Awards and collections

Fasnacht has received the Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1990), and awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2010, 1999),

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(2007), Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (2001), National Endowment for the Arts (1994, 1990) and

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(1986), among others. She has been awarded artist residencies from organizations including

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, the

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(Bellagio),

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, Edward F. Albee Foundation and

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.MacDowell Colony
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Artists. Retrieved April 22, 2021.The Rockefeller Foundation. ''Expanding Opportunity'', Annual Report, New York: The Rockefeller Foundation, 2003, p. 79.Yaddo
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Retrieved April 22, 2021. Her work belongs to the permanent museum collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art,

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(Switzerland),

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,Dallas Museum of Art
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Artists, Collections. Retrieved April 22, 2021.

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Collections. Retrieved April 22, 2021.

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''Viewmaster'', Heide Fasnacht
Collections. Retrieved April 22, 2021.

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(Netherlands),Collectie Gelderland
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Objects. Retrieved April 22, 2021.

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,Rose Art Museum
''Untitled'', Heide Fasnacht
Objects. Retrieved April 22, 2021. Santa Barbara Museum of Art,Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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Objects. Retrieved April 22, 2021. and Fundacio Sorigue (Spain), among others.

References

External links

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