A Look into the Works of Heather Wilcoxon

Heather Wilcoxon, Kirk Crippens
September 8 - October 27, 2011

Opening reception: Saturday, September 10
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Heather Wilcoxon

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Our upcoming exhibition features two of our favorite artists: a painter influenced by graffiti styles of the 1980s and a photographer with a foundation in journalism. Both Heather Wilcoxon and Kirk Crippens process contemporary anxieties (looming economic and environmental disasters) in distinct ways in their work.

Wilcoxon is a Bay Area painter who received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1988. She has exhibited in New York, Houston, Denver, Seattle, Miami, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Her work is in many collections such as: the Fine Art Museums in San Francisco; Triton Art Museum; the De Saisset Museum in Santa Clara, California; and the di Rosa Collection in Napa, California.

While artworks by Heather Wilcoxon have been exhibited from coast to coast as well as internationally, our upcoming exhibition will present other works by Wilcoxon not yet shown in the Bay Area.  This will include paintings and drawings referencing the Fukushima nuclear disaster as well as calamities that hit closer to home such as the health care crisis.


"My paintings and works on paper are commentaries about our current global and environmental ongoing situations. Through my drawings, I have developed these characters that I feel reflect all of our concerns, our fears, our worries and our brutality towards one another.
I see the world as a dangerous place. However, I am seasoned enough to see the absurdity of it all. My cartoon characters represent both the comedy and tragedy of humanity. In their childlike iconography, they embody a sense of innocent playfulness, yet in their monstrous rendering a dark humor is reflected. This dichotomy creates an interesting tension. In my paintings I invite the viewer in with nice colors and pretty surfaces. But if you look closer, the bite is there."

Heather Wilcoxon
Flag Ship, 2008
Mixed Media on canvas
54" x 54"
$9,500

Heather Wilcoxon
The Juggler, 2005
Oil on canvas
60" x 60"
$9,500

Heather Wilcoxon
Google Me, 2011
Oil on canvas
30" x 35"
$3,000

Heather Wilcoxon
Nuc Wall, 2011
Installation of mixed media works on paper
Size is variable
Please inquire

Reviews of Heather's work:

"Heather Wilcoxon is one of those unique artists that manage to provide you with a look at the sunny and bright side of their point of view while coercing you to take a deeper, sometimes gloomier, look at the same piece." Jack Archer, Curatedmag.com, Washington DC


“Looking at all the works, it was hard to decipher precisely what Wilcoxon’s images might mean, but that is part of the fun. She hovered successfully between figurative content and obfuscation, yet always managed to evoke a feeling, thereby making specific meaning irrelevant.” Christine Brenneman, Artweek


“Heather Wilcoxon is one of those people with a grotesque sense of humor and sharp wit, just the type of artist we love.” SFist.com