Heather Day

Heather Day is an American artist and entrepreneur. She is known for her modern abstract murals and large-scale paintings and her work with the culinary-art startup, Studio Table. Her artwork has been featured in galleries and private collections in New York City, Madrid, Seoul, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco.[1][2][3] She is based in San Francisco, California.[4][5]

Heather Day
Heather Day photographed in 2017.
Born
Ewa Beach, Hawaii
EducationMaryland Institute College of Art
StyleAbstract expressionism
Patron(s)Airbnb, J.Crew, SnapChat, Warner Bros., Club Monaco, Chicago Philharmonic
Websitehttp://www.heatherday.com/

Career

Heather Day grew up in Hawaii and along the East Coast of the United States.[6][7] She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting.[8] Following graduation, she moved to San Francisco to expand her studio practice.[1][9] Early in her career and after her graduation, she was outspoken about her use of social media for the promotion of the arts which was not common at that time.[8]

Work

Day considers her work a form of visual storytelling, where each painting acts as a page to a larger story about “risk and comfort.”[10] Citing the lines and textures of nature, travel, music and the depth of the color blue as her main sources of inspiration, Day works primarily with paint and non-traditional materials on canvas. She also works in both interior and exterior murals[11] and experimental sculpture. Day painted a commissioned mural at the Dropbox office in Seattle, conveying movement and creating her own canvas by painting over existing design elements such as a moose head sculpture.[12]

Aside from working with traditional painting materials, Day used her process to create the world's first augmented reality art for Facebook Camera in collaboration with Facebook's Applied Machine Learning group.[13]

Using her social media platform as a vehicle for community discussion, Day addresses feminism, current political events and their impacts on the community, and entrepreneurship.[14]

Day regards Helen Frankenthaler, Katharina Gross, Sam Gilliam, Agnes Martin, Willem DeKooning and Noah Purifoy as admirable artists.[15][16]

Together with product manager Michelle Wei, Day co-founded a culinary-art startup company called Studio Table.[17][18] Studio Table started in Day’s studio space in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.[18]

References
  1. Smith, Marina (2015-07-22). "Inside the Vibrant Life of Painter Heather Day". 7x7 Bay Area. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  2. "Heather Day – Tappan". www.tappancollective.com. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  3. "Artist Crush: Heather Day & Claire Oswalt - Elements of Style Blog". Elements of Style Blog. 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  4. Design&Trend (2015-05-18). "Heather Day Interview: Abstract Painter Explains How Henri Matisse And Travel Have Inspired Her Work [EXCLUSIVE]". Design & Trend. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  5. "Modern Abstract Paintings by Heather Day - Design Milk". Design Milk. 2014-08-28. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  6. Hamada, Jeff (2015-05-28). "San Francisco-Based Artist Heather Day". www.booooooom.com. Retrieved 2017-03-07. originally from Hawaii
  7. "Heather Day, Painter". LISA SAYS GAH. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  8. "The Digital Wheel: Heather Day On Keeping Art First". Juxtapoz Magazine. October 22, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
  9. "Revisiting Heather Day in the Studio – Tappan". www.tappancollective.com. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  10. "Inside An Artist's Streamlined Work-Live Loft". Lonny. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  11. "Flax Oakland Mural Heather Day". flaxart.com. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  12. "Dropbox Seattle Mural by Heather Day at Dropbox Seattle, Seattle". www.wescover.com. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  13. Nieva, Richard. "Inside Facebook's plan to turn the world into the MoMA". CNET. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  14. "Heather Day — She Explores: Women in the outdoors". She Explores: Women in the outdoors. 2016-10-16. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  15. "Vulnerabilities & Textures :: The Emotional Art of Heather Day | The Hundreds". thehundreds.com. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  16. "Artist Heather Day on Painting Blindfolded and Finding Success". Lone Wolf Magazine. 2015-08-10. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  17. "San Francisco Artist Launches Dinner Series in Her Studio". PA Eats. 2016-09-28. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
  18. McDowell, Maghan (2018-03-08). "Soho House's SF dinner draws creative tech types". SFGate. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
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