Ally/Enemy (from Preparing to Lose)

Graphite on Paper; Digital Inkjet Reproduction, 2008

This image is from Preparing to Lose, a book of drawings that addresses the absurdities of war and the notion that our efforts are inefficient at best. The narrative focuses on the machines we build, the simulations we create, the drills we run, the stories we exaggerate, and the vulnerability we all feel while waiting for an attack. While 100% of the figures are preparing to win, the majority will inevitably lose.

Ally/Enemy (from Preparing to Lose)

Graphite on Paper; Digital Inkjet Reproduction, 2008

These editions are printed with archival pigment inks on a matte Fine Art paper. The ink and paper combination have a display permanence rating of 150+ years.

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Heather Layton

b. 1975, United States

Short Bio

Heather Layton is an artist and Senior Lecturer of Art in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, where she teaches courses in Painting, Mixed Media, and Performance Art. She received an MFA in Painting from SUNY New Paltz in 2002 and a BFA from Syracuse University in 1997. Her work addresses spaces of tension: spaces that have the potential to result in conflict or intimacy depending on the mechanisms of communication. Layton’s work has been represented nationwide in cities including Chicago, Seattle, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Rochester.

Website

www.heatherlayton.com

Education

• MFA Painting, SUNY New Paltz, NY, USA 2002
• BFA, Art Education, Syracuse University, NY, USA 1997

Collections

Artisan Works/Elizabeth Collection, Rochester, NY

Solo Exhibitions

• I Know It Happened and It Happened Like This, George Eastman House and International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY 2008
• Thank You For Everything, Bruises and Bumps, Firehouse and Wiseman Galleries, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR 2008
• Hearing Aides and Other Personal Prosthetics, Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2006 (two-person)
• (sub)Urban Homicide, Public Intervention Performance Project, Rochester, NY 2006
• Hearing Aides II, Towers Art Gallery, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY 2006 (two-person)
• Conversations With Saints, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 2006
• When the Gods Prayed Back, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005
• The Joys of Oral Fixation, RoCo Gallery Lab Space, Rochester, NY 2005
• Too Much Attention, Not Enough Food, The Gallery at the Art & Music Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 2004
• MFA Thesis Exhibition, Samuel Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 2002

Group Exhibitions

• Borderlands, SSCC Art Gallery, South Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA (juried) 2008
• Word of Mouth Aesthetics Technology Lab, Ohio University, Athens, OH (juried) 2008
• Trading Spaces, SUNY Binghamton Art Gallery, Binghamtom, NY (juried) 2008
• I/We Case Studies, , SCAD, Defoor Centre, Atlanta, GA (juried) 2007
• Last Gasp, Washington Gallery at the Washington School of Photography, Bethesda, MD, 2007
• Un(Bound), Rochester Contemporary Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2005 (juried)
• Appendix, Rochester Contemporary Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2005
• Redux, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2005
• Dialogues, Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2004
• Members’ Exhibition, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2004
• Text and Texture, Center at High Falls Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2004
• Pretty in Pink Polka Dot Queens, Nazareth Academy, Rochester, NY (collaboration), 2003
• BIG, Center at High Falls Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (invitational), 2003
• Where are the Best Paintings in Rochester?, Center at High Falls Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (invitational), 2002

Publications

• Portfolio of Images, Fotograf Magazine, number 8, vol. 5, 2007
• Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Focal Press, Robert Hirsch author, 2007
• Exploring Color Photography: From Darkroom to Digital, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill publisher, Robert Hirsch author, 2005

Awards

Lillian Fairchild Award, 2008

Heather Layton

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Reviews

• “Violence Memorial Installed on Eastman Lawn”, Rachel Ward, WXXI, February 21, 2008
• “Violence Monument grows in Rochester”, Associated Press, WCAX-TV, Vermont, February 22, 2008
• “GEH Exhibit Sends Social Message”, Jim Aroune, RNEWS TV, Rochester, February 20, 2008
• “Eastman House Hosts Violence Vigil”, Yevette Collins, RNEWS TV Rochester, March 6, 2008
• “Violence Vigil Held on Eastman Lawn”, Rich Turner, RNEWS TV, March 7, 2008
• “Penfield Artist Creates a Tower of Remembrance”, Nicole Lee, Democrat and Chronicle, February 19, 2008
• “A Penfield Artist Creates One Tower to Memorialize Lives of Many”, Nicole Lee, Democrat & Chronicle, February 20, 2008
• “Tower Symbolizes Pain, Hope”, Alan Morrell, Democrat & Chronicle, March 6 and 7, 2008
• Editorial Column Review, Mark Hare, Democrat & Chronicle, March 2008
• “Memorial Will Honor Lives Ended by Violence”, Jane Flasch, CW Rochester, WHAM 13 TV, February 7, 2008
• Featured in “Homicidez”, a documentary film by Director/Producer Nicholle La Vann, Filmstress Filmz (in production)
• Feature Article, Horizon, Badr Al-Jahwary and Younis Al-Harrasi, Muscat, Oman, Issue 103
• “Mapping the Murders,” Tim Louis Macaluso, City Newspaper, Vol. 35, No. 38, June 14, 2006
• “Kaganovich and Layton create ‘Hearing Aids and Other Personal Prosthetics,’” Juile Lawrence, review by OnMilwaukee.com, Jan 24, 2006
• “NOIZE 24/7 +ONE: Who to See and Where to See ‘Em,” C.G., The Shepherd Express, Milwaukee, WI, January 26, 2006
• “City’s Choice”, City Newspaper, Rochester, NY, November 17, 2004

Artist Talks and Interviews

• “(sub)Urban Homicide: The Real Effects of a Fictional Scenario”, College Art Association conference, Dallas, TX, February 21, 2008
• Televised Interview, Jane Flasch, WHAM 13 News, February 7, 2008
• “Borderless: Translating Hope”, artist talk, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, March 20, 2007
• “(sub)Urban Homicide”, series of four public talks as part of “Reality Tours”, sponsored by SUNY Brockport in collaboration with the Social Welfare Action Alliance, October 21-22, 2006
• Artist Talk, Towers Fine Art Gallery, SUNY Brockport, September 28, 2006
• “(sub)Urban Homicide”, television segment interview, reporter Joylynn Whitfield, CBS/WROC, October 18, 2006 “(sub)Urban Homicide,” feature segment interview, Chris Coffey, reporter, Channel 10 RNews, June 11, 2006
• Artist Talk, Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Jan 27, 2006
• “Conversations With Saints,” Channel 10 RNews television interview, February 19, 2006
• Guest Speaker, From Chickens to Miracles: Contemporary Mexican Ex-voto Painting, Office of Special Programs, University of Rochester
• Guest Speaker, Contemporary Watercolor, Office of Special Programs, University of Rochester
• Guest Speaker, Adolescence and Pop Culture, Warner Graduate School of Education, University of Rochester