Lawrence Markey Inc.

Lawrence Markey, Inc. San Antonio Texas

Press Release


Glenn Heim Paintings

at Lawrence Markey
San Antonio, TX

July & August 2020, open by appointment

Lawrence Markeyis pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Glenn Heim (American, b. 1939).

Glenn Heim Paintings, the first exhibition of Heim’s work, will feature 25 oil on wood panel paintings, most of which were created between 2006 and 2017.

Heim’s paintings are modest in size, as Donato Loia writes, “...these small paintings, some of them only about four by five inches, look brilliant and fresh. Their size fosters a sense of emotional closeness and desire for private engagement.” The handheld scale of Heim’s work belies imagery suggestive of the monumental; stoic objects of inderterminate size are situated within seemingly expansive landscapes. These structures, of Heim’s invention, recall modernist design: muted tones, clean lines, volumetric forms designed with an acute balance between geometry and the natural world. Color is built up steadily with layers of oil paint, creating subtle perceptive shifts in-color intensity, surface texture, atmosphere, and mood-when viewed in varying degrees of natural light.
Richard Shiff writes:

“Heim’s landscapes seductively mimic the normative, then lead it to a condition of collapse. Experiencing the collapse, a viewer opens to a world of perceptual wonder. Like Giorgio Morandi, Heim remains close enough to convention to allow viewers to slip in and out of his, but also their own, world of fantasy.”

Glenn Heim was born in 1939 in Bellevue, Iowa. Heim graduated from the Cleveland Art Institute in 1962, studying industrial design. Today Glenn Heim lives and works in Massachusetts.

A publication entitled, Glenn Heim Paintings, accompanies the exhibition with essays “Glenn Heim, Projection” by Richard Shiff (the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Center for the Study of Modernism) and “Landscapes of Hesitation: Notes on Glenn Heim’s Paintings” by Donato Loia (PhD Candidate in Modern and Contemporary Art at The University of Texas at Austin, and Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for the Study of Modernism).

The gallery is located in the Full Goods building at Pearl. Suite 104 is up a few stairs (ramp access available), on the breezeway that runs parallel to E. Grayson Street.

Please contact Sandra Weatherhead to request further information or images: 210-228-9966 or info@lawrencemarkey.com