‘Hourglass’

Solo show at Almine Rech, New York, 2025

Excerpt taken from Almine Rech’s press release:

“Almine Rech New York, Tribeca is pleased to present 'Hourglass,' Heather Day's second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from November 7 to December 19, 2025.

Heather Day’s paintings are indexes of time. These static objects are containers for ephemeral movement and gesture, for emergence and entropy, for chaos and control. They are repositories of feeling and essays of inquiry and reflection.

Day’s paintings carry their information primarily in the form of color, often transposed from the fleeting atmospheric effects of the rising and setting sun over the southern Mojave Desert where Day lives and works. Large windows frame views from her studio onto the creosote and sagebrush that recedes towards boulder-strewn hills on the horizon. This landscape is a dusty ground for vivid celestial lightshows, which bathe it daily in subtly attenuated gradients of color.

In turn, the earth responds to the sun, most apparently through the plants and flowers that depend upon its light and, as if in supplication, mimic the colors of sunrise and sunset. During summers spent on the Oregon coast, Day has observed the seasonal blooms of pink, purple, blue, yellow and orange flowers that appear near the area’s rocky cliffs and beaches and has emulated these colors in her painting palette.”

— Jonathan Griffin, writer, critic, and curator