Awareness Post - Heide Trepanier

April 28, 2018 8:58 pm 30'' x 30'', 2018

Name: HeideTrepanier

Mediums: Painting, often large-scale panels with rich color, acrylic, and egg tempera Her website: htrepanier

Artistic Style:

• Works often showcase expressive color and energetic mark-making.

• Process sometimes involves play between control and spontaneous gesture, echoing themes of chaos vs order. (From: Artsy)

Gallery Representation / Exhibitions

• Past exhibitions include “This is Fine…” at Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA). Reynolds Gallery

Education

• Bachelor's degree in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,

• Her master's degree in fine arts from Virginia Commonwealth University

What I like:

• Trepanier’s use of vibrant color and gestural marks feels very alive and immediate, it pulls me into the emotional energy of the work.

• The layers and mixing, especially in pieces like the one above, suggest richness and complexity that reward careful looking.

Ideas or processes that influence my work:

• Her balance of spontaneous mark-making with compositional control connects with my own exploration of abstract expression and form.

• I’m inspired by how she embraces both chaos and structure, something I also want to explore in my own abstract pieces.