"unnoticed" and "Still Black Sketches"- John Heintzman

unnoticed=- Main Gallery

“Committing to creating a body of work with the simplest, minimalist materials: #2 pencil and paper. From my talents relying upon my need to express, I used the basic tools because of accessibility and directness—graphite to paper building free and energized forms with frenzied lines overtaking the matrix. 

Thought and creativity are the manipulation of marks and lines. They do not exist apart from the results that they express. This capacity of active mark making opens the way for an infinite system of interpretation. The impulses that create the action sometimes is coupled with the constraints of an abstract language; but they are emotional, effective, and limitless none the less. As these marks “bind,” “unbind,” and “rebind,” symbols that become the space for interpretation.

The ability to interpret language is not born out of a dual relationship between a symbol and an object: it is to interpret it through emotional and visual reaction.  There is a need to organize what is not part of the relationship as it relates to thought. More importantly, it recognizes the distance and reflection between the definition of the line and that which assimilates language to the mind. I hold the belief that each work has such intention that is dependent upon my communication and visual language based on abstraction rather than representation. “

Still Black Sketches- John Heintzman

Project Space Gallery

Most of my work is the result of a repetitive process of composition and deconstruction. The starting point is an intuitive and spontaneous practice of drawing, which leads to cutting and tearing to confirm the composition. The interpretation we make reveals to us what our unconscious has to say. The artwork speaks to us and opens up unexplored paths. The gestures and disruption of the works is just a doorway. The language becomes the distortion or the reinterpretation of reality; it opens the field of the possible which questions and frees us. The "short stories" or series allows one to see and to perceive things from both a new and irrational perspective. My exploration of rhythmic compositions are carried away by the interventions of colors and unpredictable imbalances. When you are in front of the installation of 160 collages, there always seems to be a before and an after. The impression of movement and impermanence is omnipresent.  It’s an invitation to contemplate and investigate the individual pieces within the whole.