Artist Presentation: Heidi Weiss

Kalamazoo artist Heidi Weiss’s paintings spring from images taken from paused film stills -- a number of which will be the basis for a series of new oil paintings that “preserve and disrupt story logic.” Weiss will focus on these “transitional frames” during her Glen Arbor Arts Center residency. Weiss talks about her residency during a public presentation June 11, 10 am at the GAAC.“These transitional frames—often overlooked—offer a chance to slow down visual information before it resolves into narrative,” she said. “This residency gives me the time to test how visual interruption, abstraction, and fragmentation can shift the emotional and interpretive weight of familiar scenes, and how the series should develop moving forward.”

The GAAC has been hosting visiting artmakers as part of its residency program since the 1990s. For more information about the GAAC’s AIR Program go to GlenArborArt.org / ARTISTS.