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PAUL HEROUX Congress Street Gallery Please click images above for full view.
Paul Heroux is known for working with the ceramic vessel as a painting surface. For almost as long as he has been working with clay he has been drawn to this three-dimensional canvas with its potential for surprise. "There is always some hidden side of the piece regardless of the vantage point" he says.
Some of the most elaborate painting can be found on the underside of his large platters and bowls. Unseen except upon very close inspection. His jars and vases present a different image at every angle often referencing plant life, erotica and the landscape. The vessels, exquisite in themselves, are further elevated by the remarkable imagery covering the surface.
Heroux describes himself as a craft artist and as such it is important to him that his work is visibly strong and durable, so that it invites touch and use. Tactile experience and the potential for use are, he says, crucial to his definition of a craft object.
Since the early 1970s Heroux has exhibited at significant galleries and institutions throughout the United States including the Portland Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Charleston Museum of Fine Arts in Charleston, North Carolina. He has received numerous fellowships and awards and his commissioned installations are prominent in schools, hotels and corporations from the United States to the West Indies.
His work is held in the permanent collections of such institutions as Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, the De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. An Art Lecturer at Bates College, Paul Heroux received his under graduate and graduate education at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He resides and maintains a studio in New Gloucester, Maine. This is his second major exhibit at June Fitzpatrick Gallery.
Congress Street Gallery
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