Amber Heaton

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah / Works in Brooklyn, New York

BIO

Amber Heaton creates colorful, geometric paintings, installations, mixed media works, and works on paper. She received an MFA from RISD in 2012 and a BFA from the University of Utah in 2009. Her work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Susquehanna Art Museum, and other venues internationally. Heaton participated in the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, was an artist-in-residence at Wassaic and a Fulbright Fellowship in South Korea. Heaton lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

You’ll like Amber if: you believe that meditating is a great way to reset and recenter yourself

Like Byzantine architecture and mandala drawings, my work lies in the tradition of creating spaces that embody the sensation of the sacred or mystical. The rhythms of light visible in the natural world provoke my work. Using scale, abstraction, and repetition, I devise spatial relationships with psychological tension and release. These psychological spaces give me room to consider human interactions in a visual way, and my geometries become metaphors for those interactions. In each artwork, I invite the viewer to seek tranquility and equality.