ERIK MADIGAN HECK – THE GARDEN
2020-07-27The Garden is an ongoing body of work depicting Heck’s wife and two young sons in a variety of richly colourful surroundings. The photographs draw upon Catholic iconography and other mythic pictorial traditions to develop a color-based narrative evocative of spiritual archetypes and the processes of dissolution and rebirth.
The series moves through a singular world, a fairytale in which figures and settings become tableaux for hyper-concentrated tonal arrangements. Images are composited and oversaturated with color to create painterly and surreal compositions in which the familiar and fantastic are merged. Completing its aesthetic fantasy through lavish clothes, gestures of dreamlike poignancy, and an Edenic environment, The Garden expresses the supramundane innocence and spontaneity that art makes possible—a life lived in the direct, immediate experience of beauty.
Opposite – Untitled, The Garden, 2019
Exhibition runs November 6th, 2020 through January 15th, 2021
Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
GA 30305
