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HEATHER BAUSE RUBINSTEIN

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Recently, I have been making gestural paintings with oil on canvas, while still making paintings in old wall sample books and on found bed sheets and table cloths. I still make stitched painting — using remnants and fragments from my looser, more gestural abstraction paintings— often landscape inspired recto-verso paintings, but these days I'm making more direct works on textiles. In many ways, I have moved away from paintings structured by pattern, and found myself drawn to more complexity, a greater number of parts, a more relational language. I still rely on, and reuse found fabrics (bedsheets, duvets, crochets, 1960-70s women’s business jackets, all scavenged from thrift stores), but in these “post-pattern” paintings, it’s no longer about regularly repeating motifs. I still value Pattern and Decoration; and Support/Surface—Alberto Burri, Simon Hantai—but I’ve also been looking at Vuillard, Bonnard, Mitchell, Twombly and Rauschenberg, and reconnecting with 1950s Ab Ex and Informel painting. I’m assimilating painted passages and found fabrics, recto and verso surfaces, paintbrush and sewing machine. The process of making these paintings is much slower, which I hope translates into longer looking. 

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  • Gardens of Babylon

    oil on canvas, 2023, 30 x 40 inches

  • Hanging gardens of Babylon

    oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, 2023

  • Gardens of Babylon

    oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, 2023

  • Inside-Out

    oil on canvas, 24×36

  • Webs

    oil on canvas, 2023

  • Clusterfuck

    oil on canvas, 2023

  • untitled

    oil on canvas, 2023

  • Red Cluster

    oil on canvas, 14×20 inches, 2023

  • Those times

    oil on canvas, 2023

  • Erased garden

    oil on canvas, 20 x 40 inches, 2023

  • Erased peach pit

    oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches, 2023

  • sometimes a pony gets depressed

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • paintings on paper

    I used to have the notion I could swim the length of the ocean

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • we could slip away wouldn’t that be better me with nothing to say and you in your autumn sweater

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • I need a new party

    Acrylic on bed sheet, 2022

  • She’s the only one who always inhales

    Acrylic on bed sheet, 2022

  • Forests

    latex on bedsheet, 2021

  • Too much love

    Acrylic on bed sheet 2022

  • I need a new body I need a new party

    Acrylic on bed sheet, 2022

  • I’m on unsubscribe fuck season five

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • Paris is Stale

    Acrylic on bed sheet, 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper

  • Untitled

    Acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • You wanted a Hit but baby we don’t do hits

    Acrylic on bed sheet, 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • The CLockwork

    The Clockwork

    latex paint on found textiles and fabrics sewn together, 120 x 120

  • The Clockwork

    detail

  • Forest upstate, in progress

    latex on bedsheet, 2021

  • Gardens of Babylon

    oil on canvas, 2023, 30 x 40 inches

  • Hanging gardens of Babylon

    oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, 2023

  • Gardens of Babylon

    oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, 2023

  • Inside-Out

    oil on canvas, 24×36

  • Webs

    oil on canvas, 2023

  • Clusterfuck

    oil on canvas, 2023

  • untitled

    oil on canvas, 2023

  • Red Cluster

    oil on canvas, 14×20 inches, 2023

  • Those times

    oil on canvas, 2023

  • Erased garden

    oil on canvas, 20 x 40 inches, 2023

  • Erased peach pit

    oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches, 2023

  • sometimes a pony gets depressed

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • paintings on paper

    I used to have the notion I could swim the length of the ocean

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • we could slip away wouldn’t that be better me with nothing to say and you in your autumn sweater

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • I need a new party

    Acrylic on bed sheet, 2022

  • She’s the only one who always inhales

    Acrylic on bed sheet, 2022

  • Forests

    latex on bedsheet, 2021

  • Too much love

    Acrylic on bed sheet 2022

  • I need a new body I need a new party

    Acrylic on bed sheet, 2022

  • I’m on unsubscribe fuck season five

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • Paris is Stale

    Acrylic on bed sheet, 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper

  • Untitled

    Acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • You wanted a Hit but baby we don’t do hits

    Acrylic on bed sheet, 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • Untitled

    acrylic on paper 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • untitled

    acrylic on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2022

  • The CLockwork

    The Clockwork

    latex paint on found textiles and fabrics sewn together, 120 x 120

  • The Clockwork

    detail

  • Forest upstate, in progress

    latex on bedsheet, 2021

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