MARFA Invitational

Marfa, TX

May 4 - 7, 2023

The Pit is delighted to present a booth featuring new works by Joshua Tree-based artist Heather Day for MARFA Invitational 2023.

Heather Day, born in 1989 in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, lives and works in Joshua Tree, California. She received a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Day has exhibited work at institutions such as Fort Wayne Museum of Art, The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids and The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MOCA). Recent gallery shows include solo exhibitions at Diane Rosenstein gallery in Los Angeles and Anna Zorina Gallery in New York. Heather Day is represented by The Pit, Los Angeles.

“These paintings are a humble love letter to sunlight, and the many ways that light scatters and greets our eyes in the waning hours before darkness. Living in the High Desert at the end of a washboard road, I’ve found myself more aware of new surroundings now that I’m removed from the city. The immensity of the sky is magnified by the absence of cars, buildings, stoplights, and ambient noise.

In the evenings, the sun arcs over the desert wash casting shades of cadmium red, orange, and pink before dissolving into deep prussian blues, violets, and turquoise, signaling it will soon settle in the craggy hills west of my studio. It’s a ritual performance I rarely miss.

I’ve been reading more about clouds and their role in this ritual performance. The way they scatter light. The way they can masquerade as light themselves depending on their wavelength, altitude, angle of departure, and depending on the perspective of the viewer.

The same sunset can look much different to the observer depending on where you are in space and how close you are to those clouds. It’s no surprise that these otherworldly events have inspired mysticism, fear, and transcendence in humans for centuries. Showing up as stained glass, poetry, or a $10 tie-dye t-shirt for sale under a tent on the side of the road. “

-Heather Day

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Even

After

All this time

The Sun never says to the Earth,

“You owe me."

Look

What happens

With a love like that,

It lights the whole sky.

-Hafiz

MARFA Invitational is open through May 4 - 7, 2023. The fair is located at the 325 E San Antonio St, Marfa, TX 79843.

VIP Preview:
Thursday, May 4 | 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm.
(Invitation Only)

Open to the Public:
Friday, May 5| 10:00 am – 5:00 pm.
Saturday, May 6 | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm.
Sunday, May 7 | 10:00 am – 1:00 pm.

For more information email us at info@the-pit.la