HEATHER BRUBAKER
Heather Brubaker is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco. Her work symbolically examines relationships. She received a BA in Studio Art at Dartmouth College and an MFA in 2004 from the University of California, Davis, where she received a Mary Lou Osborne Fellowship. She attended an artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in May 2005. Brubaker has been involved with the Bay Area arts community since 1998, showing in numerous venues.
STATEMENT
Painting with expressive color through abstraction, my work deconstructs and reconstitutes physical structure through illusory space and paradoxical content. I create chain-like structures and clusters influenced by string theory physics and cellular biology that simultaneously symbolize facile connections of scientific order with the emotional barriers of psychological human experience. This dichotomy of relationships is further explored in the paintings through my experience as a musician. Influenced visually by the inner mechanizations of musical instruments and the rigid order of written notation, I create repetitive patterns of animated gesture indicative of music's ability to transcend from automation to expression. Through the influence of quantitative science, I employ abstract painting to investigate the quality of our shared experiences and evolving relationships in the natural world.
