Reviews “not to scale” at Heaven Gallery Gareth Kaye October 14, 2018 Heaven GalleryMatt BrettShir Ende The user of these strange shapes and shelters becomes aware of a multiplicity of potential functions and experiences contained within the structure that goes far beyond the depths of the image/thing’s surface. In this sense, the mutual interdependence of both architecture/object and the human body/object establish an actual intimacy by not privileging ease of use, but rather the action of use.
Reviews Santina Amato “Monster” at Heaven Gallery Janet Cheung July 7, 2018 Heaven GallerySantina Amato When the dough was ready, she broke it into balls and stuffed one after another into the small vessels––as if injecting a fertilized egg into a womb. This anomalous conception beckoned chaos.
Reviews “Simple Pleasures” at Heaven Gallery Elizabeth Lalley March 17, 2017 Heaven GalleryCaleb YonoLiz McCarthyRaul de LaraRyan Pfeiffer + Rebecca WalzSelina Trepp The illusion of moisture gives an unwavering vitality to the works; they will never thirst. The pleasure found here is empathetic, as viewers imagine the sensation of the sculptures’ glistening surfaces against their skin.
Reviews “Weird Dude Energy” at Heaven Gallery, curated by Gurl Don’t Be Dumb James Pepper Kelly July 14, 2013 Heaven GalleryAlex GartlemannAndrew Mausert-MooneyEileen MuellerGurl Don't Be DumbIvan LozanoJamie SteeleMichael ReaNicholas WylieOli RodriguezZak Arctander A variety of manly tensions are borne out by the juxtapositions in the group show “Weird Dude Energy.” In the end, there’s just nothing that says “competence” like a great curatorial concept enjoyably, even suavely, executed.
Reviews Lorraine Dauw at The Hills Esthetic Center Robert Burnier June 4, 2013 Heaven GalleryThe Hills Esthetic CenterAlberto AguilarEric MayHeidi NortonLeo KaplanLorraine Dauw I chuckled to myself when I saw that Dauw couldn’t help but throw a cookie and a real half of a lemon into one of the circular pieces; more serious play that both foils and engages us.
Micro Meditations MDW Micro Meditation: Morgan Sims James T Green November 12, 2012 Heaven GalleryMDW FairMorgan Sims Morgan Sims’ Palisade, presented by Heaven Gallery, was an immediate MDW stand-out. As a designer and artist working in technology, I was captivated…