Heide Hatry

* Germany
lives and works in New York, NY

In my recent work, my primary material is fresh pigskin. The original
motivation for the choice of this medium was the need to create a human
sculpture that would look as real as possible for a video project I had
conceived. In working with the material, I discovered that I respond
intensely to its feel, smell, and the deeply corporal overall sensation it
engenders. I find it's effect in sculptural work as well as in
photographs uniquely "human."

I work with both fresh material and with preserved skin that I had
treated with salt or chemicals, or which I had plastinated, a process
that involves removing the fluid contents of the skin and infusing it with
silicon in a vacuum environment. Some of my work results in skin objects,
sometimes two-dimensional, usually sculptural, and some is photographic
documentation of objects or arrangements.

My goal is to produce work that jumps from the wall and makes its viewer
feel something intense. I want to reveal that we are surrounded by flesh
in our ordinary environment, that many products are made out of dead
animal skin, but since it is disguised, and the process by which it ha...

University of Education, Heidelberg: art.

University of Heidelberg: history of European art.

Teacher at privat art school, Heidelberg: sculpture, painting, drawing and printing for 12 years.


Selection of past exhibitions:

2003
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Volume Gallery, New York, NY
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2004
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Volume Gallery, New York, NY
Soho 20 Gallery, New York, NY
DNA Gallery, Provincetown

2005
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OS Galerie, Berlin
DNA Gallery, Provincetown
Bateman Gallery, New York, NY

2006
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Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
ADM Projects, Los Angelos, CA
Goethe Institut , New York, NY
Art Basel, Basel
Bow Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA,