Jay Heikes @ UC-Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Highpoint Editions artist Jay Heikes has a solo exhibition entitled "Jay Heikes: Matrix 269" at the UC-Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive through April 29, 2018. 

"Many of the objects—paintings, sculptures, and drawings—presented in this exhibition were informed by time Jay Heikes (b. 1975) spent at a residency in Marfa, Texas, in early 2017. The dry, crumbly terrain of the desert landscape and the site’s proximity to Mexico inspired his rumination and reflection on the significance of borders to our culture, a subject that has concurrently received much attention in the political sphere." - exhibition webpage

To learn more about the exhibition, click here.

Jay Heikes: The Devil Has Left My Building, 2015; pencil and ink on paper; 51 1/8 x 85 in.; courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Jay Heikes. Photo: Object Studies.

Jay Heikes: The Devil Has Left My Building, 2015; pencil and ink on paper; 51 1/8 x 85 in.; courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Jay Heikes. Photo: Object Studies.

Tales from the Co-op: Austin Nash

Tales from the Co-op:  Austin Nash

Born and raised in Minnesota, I grew up on a farm two hours southwest of the twin cities near Springfield (there is one in every state). Although I drew as soon as I could hold a pencil, I was equally interested in economic theories and business models. In 2014 I received my undergraduate degree in business administration with a focus on entrepreneurship from the University of St Thomas. 

Community Partnership Spotlight: Spark-Y Youth Action Labs

Community Partnership Spotlight: Spark-Y Youth Action Labs

Early fall 2017, Highpoint participated in the Spark-Y Urban Adventure Race. The event was organized with the help of CitySolve, and was a team building scavenger hunt that took place in Uptown, Minneapolis. At Highpoint, participants screen printed images of plants in our rain gardens. Once their printmaking task was complete, they scrambled off to other participating organizations in the Uptown area.

Tales from the Co-op: Nancy Bolan

Tales from the Co-op: Nancy Bolan

I took my first printmaking classes as an undergraduate in graphic design. I loved the physical process of intaglio printmaking, and the way that etching and printing a plate transformed and contributed to an image. I was excited when I discovered the co-op at Highpoint: I could continue to explore the medium in a well-equipped studio, and also get to know a supportive community of artists, experts and instructors.

Tales from the Co-op: Kyle Caspers

Tales from the Co-op: Kyle Caspers

When I first began working at Highpoint, the rule I set for myself was to avoid anything that felt conservative.  After four years in an undergraduate program that was centered on traditional figurative painting and drawing, I was ready for a change. Underlying this change was a desire to replace the primacy of skilled mark making and virtuosity that occupies the attention of many artists with a more process-driven approach.  My best work has a sense of being built or engineered, so naturally I have become invested in designing things digitally using a combination of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Community Partnership Spotlight: Little Earth

Community Partnership Spotlight: Little Earth

Little Earth is a housing development located in South Minneapolis. It was developed as an affordable housing complex with Native preference and is the first of its kind. Little Earth hosts an after-school teen program that connects teens in their community to learning opportunities both within and outside of the Little Earth community. Teens from this program came to Highpoint three times over the summer for art activities including, learning drypoint and screenprinting techniques.