Andrea Joyce Heimer: Neither Here Nor There

Andrea Joyce Heimer (b.1981) is an American artist currently working in the Pacific Northwest. Heimer’s painting and drawing practice investigates the subject of loneliness—largely informed by autobiographical stories such as her own adoption—in order to examine how humans experience feeling alone and its connection to how and why we make art. Heimer’s paintings read like journal entries, with long anecdotal titles and colourful tableaus, intersecting the intensely personal and universally relatable each work resonating in a way akin to poetry.

Heimer’s work has been covered in outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Art in America, New York Times, The New Yorker, New American Paintings, and Huffington Post. She earned an MFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art and has taught illustration at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver), at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston) and Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle). Heimer was the 2019 Recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant.

“Neither Here Nor There is a collection of narratives about existing in limbo. Each painting tells a personal account of a situation in which I’ve felt stuck, indecisive, frozen, or otherwise in some sort of waiting state. These in-between moments, after a transition has begun but before its resolution, can be a profoundly uncomfortable space to inhabit but one that is familiar and unique to the human condition.” - Andrea Heimer