We are proud to present international artist Heather Chontos to The Netherlands. She will exhibit her solo exhibition Trove in Artmozphere from May 10 to June 30, 2025.
(!) On May 10, the Grand Opening will take place in the presence of the artist. If you want to request a personal invitation, please get in touch.
About Heather
Born in 1978 in Tarrytown, New York, Heather Chontos lives and works in Sao Salvador da Aramenha, Portugal. Chontos’s abstracted compositions reveal her relentless gestural movements around the raw canvas laid on her studio floor. An episode of temporary blindness during her childhood may have been the starting point for her artistic practice. Fascinated by light and color, Chontos has since been inspired by the visual landscapes of her surroundings as she allows her intuition to take over the surface of her canvases. Unsatisfied with conventional brushes and techniques, she has found alternative ways to paint using objects such as pieces of broken glass, and most recently painting with the flat edges of found plastic cards. As she seeks further closeness to the medium, she lifts invisible burdens and offers her alternative vision of the world, one composed of color, harmony, balance, and inner contemplation. Chontos’s color-field painting, somewhere between landscapes and abstraction, creates rhythm, motion, and depth through overlapping patches of saturated hues.
“I have always found that the
dynamic playfulness of light, the
way it moves, how it fills space and
gives color, all its varying shades in
nature is the most magical
performance. I can sit and watch
the unraveling of light all day.”
About Trove
It is possible to find everything you need right in front of you, if you just look.
Our individual stories come to life each day as we observe and interact with the world we live in. Each moment, memory and experience contributes to what we cherish. My artwork remains for me like a visual treasure map, reminding me of many various moments in time, a particular light, a feeling, a sound, a connection.
This exhibition « trove » is a way to share my visual map of my work spanning the last five years, showing works on wood, antique paper and linen. These materials are important to the context of this exhibition as most are found, each surface like a new discovery. Being resourceful, asking for less and exploring possibilities of what is already there to create my « treasure trove ».
Previous exhibitions
Guido Pera (2022)
Geneviève Claisse (2022)
Valerio Adami (2020)
Bram van Velde (2019)