Heather Wilcoxon’s paintings lie in the intersection between folk art, outsider art and expressionism. They draw on elements of mark making, graffiti art and cartooning and bring to mind works by Cy Twombly, Jean Dubuffet, Kenny Sharf, and Jean Michel Basquiat. Masterful built up surfaces become the ground for cartoon like figures, but beneath the childlike appearance and whimsy is a mature and thoughtful body of work whose implicit message is specific to the times and targets the artist’s concerns about the contemporary human condition. Her work chronicles her view of misguided politics, greed, narcissism, power mongering, the military industrial complex, and the destruction of our planet. And yet her cynicism is mediated by a strong sense of hopefulness and faith in human nature.
Wilcoxon lives and works in Sausalito, California. She received her BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the recipient of two Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grants and has been exhibited and collected widely. Her houseboat, the Delta Queen, and intricately adorned car are the manifestations of a life of relative simplicity lived consciously and with an eye always open to aesthetics.
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