Heide Fasnacht (b. 1951, Cleveland) has shown an abiding interest in states of flux. She has returned to painting/collage after several decades. This return has ushered in a commensurate new area of interest: the depiction of neglected and long forgotten playgrounds. This work is more personal in nature than her previous sculptures. The bodily feelings evoked by climbing and swinging include vertigo, confusion, excitement, and mastery. These works limn vast and sublime spaces. All of this and more are explored through the more direct and fluid medium of paint.
Fasnacht has exhibited at MOMA, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Documenta 6, RAM Galerie in Rotterdam, Galeria Trama in Barcelona, QBox Galerie Athens, Kent Fine Art NYC, the Worcester Art Museum, PS1, and many others. She is in many permanent collections including: the MFA Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, The Brooklyn Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Fasnacht is also the recipient of numerous awards, including: The Guggenheim Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Gottlieb Foundation Grant, and two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowships. She has taught at Harvard, Princeton, U Penn, UCLA, Parsons, and others. Further visiting lectures include: Yale, The Whitney Museum, RISD, and VCU.
Image: Turbulence (red), 2019, Acrylic paint on manipulated photo mounted on wood panel, 48” x 60”