| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Heather Huston employs various printmaking techniques to address two main concerns: the changing urban landscape and her personal experience with Multiple Sclerosis and inflammatory arthritis. Employing silkscreen primarily, she has composed fragmented imagery of construction sites and unfinished interiors to reflect the fast-pace of new housing development in inner-city neighborhoods. The intent is not to document, so much as it is to exploit, what her eye finds engaging in the unfinished and the transitory.
The artist has also built architectural-like models and created miniature prints in silkscreen, etching, chine colle, and lithography. More evident in her series, The Body, Stranger is the presence of the human figure to evoke the daily existence of living with a serious illness. In addition to making works on paper, Huston has also silkscreened on Plexiglas.
Heather Huston graduated with a BFA with Distinction from the University of Calgary in 2002 and majored in Printmaking for her MFA at the University of Alberta in 2006. Her prints have been successfully juried into national and international exhibitions including several locations in China and at the Resonance – Canadian Printmaking Exhibition at the Shengzhi Art Centre, Beijing, 2015. She has participated in other group exhibitions in Japan, Italy, Portugal, England, the United States, Serbia, Finland and Spain. Her works are found in the collections of several major institutions, including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. |