1878 Gallery & Vault

May 30 - August 16, 2020

This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Katy Heinlein
Soft Skills

Soft Skills features the sculptural works of Katy Heinlein that utilize color, gravity, and tension to explore a kind of absurd geometry, balancing awkward symmetries and humor through an interplay of soft and hard materials. The work incorporates fabric that is elegantly draped, tailored, and tucked to conceal their rigid substrates. Heinlein embraces an abject droopiness found in these sensual works as a sort of awkward disruption to the order of their minimal forms.

Katy Heinlein was born in Baytown, TX in 1973. She received a BFA from University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in 1995 and MFA in Sculpture from Texas Tech University in 1999.  Heinlein was an intern at Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX in 1999.  In 2000, she relocated to Houston, TX, where she has lived and worked for 20 years. Heinlein has exhibited her work in Japan, Mexico, New York, Chicago, New Haven, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. She collaborated with the Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre in 2005 to create the set and costumes for Spectre de la Rose, performed at Miller Outdoor Theater, and Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center in Houston. She has completed artist residencies in Montauk, NY, Shigaraki, Japan, and Houston, TX and received grants from the Houston Arts Alliance.

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