Playing on viewers' natural inclination to see themselves in nature, the artist embeds natural materials directly onto her canvases to achieve an archival-like quality—employing a non-dominant perspective that directly confronts the lexicon of historical American landscape artworks. Bodily forms emerge and appear out of undulating hills and meandering rivers, as if to imbue the landscape with a sense of vitality. Heymans received a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 2012.
Brooklyn, New York