Wes Heiss » news http://wesheiss.com Art Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:48:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 More Serious Business http://wesheiss.com/378 http://wesheiss.com/378#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:48:05 +0000 Wes http://wesheiss.com/?p=378 I will be producing an installation for the show ‘More Serious Business’ to take place in the former Bethlehem Steel office building in the south side of Bethlehem, PA. The show will feature work by over 50 Arts faculty members who reside in the Lehigh Valley. The exhibition will be open from August 30th through October 1st with an opening reception from 6:30-9:30 on September 3rd, 2010. 511 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015

]]> http://wesheiss.com/378/feed 0 Walczak & Heiss win The City of Denver: 14th Street Corridor http://wesheiss.com/365 http://wesheiss.com/365#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:27:00 +0000 Wes http://wesheiss.com/?p=365 Marek Walczak and Wes Heiss are honored to have been selected as the winning artists for our second permanent public art commission. Our interactive interventions will be populating the sidewalks along 12 blocks of the 14th Street Corridor in the heart of downtown Denver, Colorado.

Visit Walczak & Heiss for more info

]]> http://wesheiss.com/365/feed 0 We Struck Gold! http://wesheiss.com/359 http://wesheiss.com/359#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 21:53:59 +0000 Wes http://wesheiss.com/?p=359 The University of Michigan Museum of Art ‘Dialog Table’ won GOLD in the 2010 Muse Awards in Media & Technology for Interactive Kiosks. I designed and fabricated the physical table while my partners Marek Walczak and Jakub Segen created the interface and interactive software.

More about the table

]]> http://wesheiss.com/359/feed 0 Walczak & Heiss Win Public Art Commission in Stapleton, Colorado http://wesheiss.com/339 http://wesheiss.com/339#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 06:05:53 +0000 Wes http://wesheiss.com/?p=339 Marek Walczak and Wes Heiss are overwhelmingly excited to have been selected as the winning artists for the Stapleton Central Park Recreation Center Public Art Commission. Our two new permanent installations, ‘Field’ and ‘Thought Balloons’ will be opening in January of 2011.

Visit www.walczakheiss.com for more info.

]]> http://wesheiss.com/339/feed 0 Walzcak & Heiss Finalists for a Public Artwork in Denver, Colorado http://wesheiss.com/334 http://wesheiss.com/334#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 05:17:30 +0000 Wes http://wesheiss.com/?p=334 Marek Walczak and Wes Heiss are once again delighted to be one of 5 artists selected as finalists for a second public art commission, this one on the 14th street corridor in Denver, Colorado. We will will be presenting our proposal in July of 2010.

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]]> http://wesheiss.com/334/feed 0 Shadow & Light http://wesheiss.com/324 http://wesheiss.com/324#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 04:26:01 +0000 Wes http://wesheiss.com/?p=324 I am excited to be included in an upcoming show in Lovestad, Sweden called ‘Shadow and Light’ being put together by my good friend Marek Walczak. Along with performances and workshops throughout the summer the show includes an impressive roster of 29 artists from the US, Sweden, Denmark and England.

Learn more about the show and the other artists here:
http://shadowlight.someprojects.info/

Below is a sketch of ‘forgetting’, one of the two pieces I will be making for the show.

]]> http://wesheiss.com/324/feed 0 A book of topography http://wesheiss.com/290 http://wesheiss.com/290#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:54:16 +0000 Wes http://wesheiss.com/?p=290

Pressed for time and without a solid concept on which to produce a ’sketchbook’ for an Artspace NH fundraiser auction I started developing a book of 3 dimensional topography. This rendering shows my first attempt. Each of the 6 pages will be ‘printed’ as rigid warped surfaces on a 3D rapid prototyper and then bound with a conventional metal spiral binder. For this first attempt I applied a wood texture to the surfaces however I am really looking for variety of blue and white patterns similar to what you find on china dishes.

topobook-small

]]> http://wesheiss.com/290/feed 0 Bemis Center Artist In Residence http://wesheiss.com/253 http://wesheiss.com/253#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:23:59 +0000 Wes http://wesheiss.com/?p=253 I was awarded a residency at the Bemis Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Final dates are still in the works but most likely I will be spending two or so months developing projects sometime in 2012. I am humbled to receive this amazing opportunity.

Information about the residency and the Bemis Center can be found here: http://www.bemiscenter.org/

]]> http://wesheiss.com/253/feed 0 Walczak & Heiss Finalists for a Public Artwork in Stapleton, Colorado http://wesheiss.com/248 http://wesheiss.com/248#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:02:29 +0000 Wes http://wesheiss.com/?p=248 Marek Walczak and Wes Heiss are delighted to be one of 4 artists selected as finalists for the Stapleton Central Park Recreation Center public art commission. Walczak & Heiss will be presenting two proposals on April 6th 2010.

Visit www.walczakheiss.com for more info.

]]> http://wesheiss.com/248/feed 0 Roswell Artist In Residence http://wesheiss.com/240 http://wesheiss.com/240#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:32:02 +0000 Wes http://wesheiss.com/?p=240 I was awarded a 1 year residency at the Roswell AIR program in Roswell New Mexico. Angie, Mr Piston (our cat), the El Camino, and a whole bunch of tools will be spending most of 2011 in the southwest developing new work. I am honored to have been selected and really looking forward to being back in the southwest.

Visit www.rair.org to learn more about the program.

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