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The New Contemporary Art Magazine
Each of Andrea Joyce Heimer's acrylic paintings begins as a written story. Even if the viewer isn't able to know every detail of her narratives, the painter's work gives us the chance to piece her myths ourselves. The artist offers some personal reasons why this process is so integral to her practice:
Washington based artist Andrea Joyce Heimer classifies her work as "outsider art", or paintings of strange suburbia. Her solo exhibition at the Good Luck Gallery in Los Angeles, "Suburban Mythology: Volume 2", is a continuation of her main theme: every day dramas full of dark humor, based on real people and events in Heimer's life. Her simple and flat visual style recalls artists like Mark Whalen, Mel Kadel, or Deedee Cheriel, but this can be mis-leading. Heimer fills her scenes with personal symbolism.