Heather Rubinstein

After working for a decade with non-traditional materials (house paint on unstretched supports, sewing together fragments of recycled commercial fabrics) over the past year I returned to painting with oils on stretched canvas. This switch led to a breakthrough—I developed a formal structure that seems (at least for now) to have unlimited possibilities. Inspired by the memory of place rather than landscape per se, and also by precursors (Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Per Kirkeby), these large oil paintings allow me to marry gesture and drawing, giving equal weight to both, darkness and light, abstracted landscapes and emotional expressivity.

University of Houston MFA 2016, BFA 1999
School of Visual Arts, New York, 2015

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
Barbara Davis Gallery, HTX, November 2024
High Tide, DVAA, Narrowsburg, New York, May 2023
The Clockwork: 60 Hudson St, New York, 2021
The Strangeness of Beauty, Parasol Unit, London 2021
High Violet, McClain Gallery, HTX 2019
Taut Structures, with Carl Suddath, HTX 2016
Hard Tension/Soft Surface Projects Gallery, HTX, 2016
The Stanford Binet Darke Gallery, HTX 2012
Birds of Music Bering & James Gallery, HTX 2012
Antecedents Designworks Gallery, Galveston, 2007

PUBLIC ART / INSTALLATIONS / CURATORIAL:
2023: Schema, Marlborough Gallery, NY
2024: NOPE at the Outsider Art Fair
2021: Window installation at 160 W Broadway, NY
2018: Under_Erasure, curated at Pierogi Gallery, NY
2018: Visions of Utopia, Wald Kim Foundation, NY
2017: The Miraculous: Houston, Public Art Installation, at the University of Houston, in coordination with CounterCurrent17, Mitchell Foundation for the Arts
2014: Painting installation : Texas Contemporary HTX
2012: Painting in public bathrooms, Art League HTX
2011: BOX of Curiosities, Portable on demand Art, with The American Association of Museums Cultural Program, Houston Arts Alliance, Discovery Green

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Schema: World as Diagram, Marlborough Gallery, New York, Ma...