Hollis Heichemer

Hollis Taggart is pleased to present Moving in Stillness, the New Hampshire-based artist Hollis Heichemer’s fourth solo show with the gallery. Thepaintings on view reflect the artist’s ongoing desire to capture movement within a two-dimensional space. Moving in Stillness will be on view on the first floor of Hollis Taggart in Chelsea from May 28 through July 10, 2026, with an opening reception on Thursday, May 28 from 6 to 8 pm.

“Through painting,” Heichemer explains, “I am creating a space where one senses and experiences something which then alters our relationship to that moment.” Continuing with her interest in the shifts that we experience where imagination and reality are blurred,these new paintings explore the possibility of visualizing such shifts. Rather than trying to capture an event, Heichemer’s canvases alight on imperceptible shifts and movements that ultimately make up an entire life. “I'm reminding the viewer of their own space, the one that they spend time in, that they are connected to within themselves. It's the place where they're living from. The paintings connect them to a space inside that already exists, reminding them of the view of that infinite energy within that they may have forgotten about.”

Heichemer’s paintings, which luxuriate in rich gradations of greens and blues that shift from dark intensity to light-filled translucency, bring to mind the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus’s famous river analogy that hints at how reality is in a constant state of flux (“no man ever steps in the same river twice”). In Heichemer’s paintings, the colors appear active beneath the surface plane, and this sense of depth invites the viewer to step into, or travel within, the painting, as though there is an open path of color, light, and emotional evocations one can follow.

"The way I see paintings is a moment to meet yourself, a moment to synchronize with yourself,” the artist notes. “Because the only shared experience we have with others is being alive.” More important to Heichemer than witnessing how others metabolize her paintings is the simple fact that they have experienced her work, and therefore even for a fleeting, indirect moment, have linked their fate with hers.

Hollis Heichemer was born in Binghamton, New York in 1963. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Gross McCleaf and Rosenfeld Galleries in Philadelphia and J. Cacciola Gallery in New York. She has participated in a wide range of group exhibitions, including most recently at Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia and Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco. She lives and works in New Hampshire.

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