Future Exhibition
Window Galleries Featured Artist: Alex Heilbron
Alex Heilbron presents one of her large-scale abstract paintings in the North Window Gallery and a site-specific installation in the East Window Gallery. Alex Heilbron’s work employs patterns to explore how femininity is perceived culturally, psychologically, and politically. Heilbron’s paintings present multiple points of tension: the uniformity of pattern versus the subtleties of figuration, the digital versus the handmade. In bright, bold color, Heilbron creates paintings that seem to be constantly shifting within the stability of the picture plane.
Lined Adornment, 2024, Acrylic on Canvas on Panel
Alex Heilbron received her BFA in 2009 from the San Francisco Art Institute, studied with Rita McBride and Christopher Williams at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 2014-2017, and earned an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2020. Recent solo presentations include Will Aballe, Vancouver (2024) Meliksetian Briggs, Dallas and Los Angeles (2023, 2021), Hiestand Galleries, Oxford (2020), and Ashley, Berlin (2017). Significant group shows include the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (2024), The Modern, Fort Worth (2023), Anne Barrault, Paris (2022), LAXArt, Los Angeles (2019), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2018), and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2017). She has received numerous awards, including the William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award, the Helen Frankenthaler Scholarship in 2019-2020, and a Pollock-Krasner Grant for 2023-24. Heilbron lives and works in Los Angeles, California.