Trademark figurative portraits in a fabricated environment that pays homage to his love of decorative design while commenting on attempts at “nesting” and status lifestyles.
"Heyd Fontenot"
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Everyone you know. Naked.
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For his most recent body of work, Austin-based artist Fontenot paints "naked people" and explores the themes of sexuality, morality, and desire. We really like Fontenot’s slightly off-kilter paintings, and…
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One of the problems, ok, scratch that word and let’s say issues with arts writing in Austin is that it’s such a small community that if you…
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Heyd Fontenot’s latest series of drawings and oils on panel have been on display this spring at North Cottage, a private residence in downtown Austin.
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A. Kate Sheerin, Director of CentralTrak, The University of Texas at Dallas three-year-old Artists Residency program. In a doleful email the CentralTrak team announced Sheerin’s plans to unfold her life…
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Contemporary at Blue Star has announced Heyd Fontenot, Sarah Fox, Beronica Gonzales, and Jason Willome as its 2024-2025 Berlin Residency artists.
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From the Old Jail Art Center: “The Old Jail Art Center’s permanent collection began with 325 works of art gifted from co-founders Reilly Nail and Bill Bomar. Through additional gifts,…
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From Kirk Hopper Fine Art: “Kirk Hopper Fine Art is proud to present ATM/DFW, a group exhibition featuring works by Celia Eberle, Tabatha Trolli, Celia Alvarez Munoz, Taro Waggoner, Xxavier…
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Heyd Fontenot, the consulting Director of Sala Diaz in San Antonio, is stepping down from his position. Ethel Shipton, the organization’s board president, will take on the directorship.
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Glasstire is pleased to announce its 2022 online auction, which will run from April 22-29, 2022.
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William Sarradet on the work of Trey Burns, Gerald Bell, Heyd Fontenot, Jeremy Biggers, Jeff Gibbons, and Summer Aquino.
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Even in this iteration of the fair, which included fewer galleries than in recent years, the event felt full, lively, and (as art fairs often are) just the slightest bit overwhelming.
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Former Casa Chuck resident artist and current Interim Director of Sala Diaz, Heyd Fontenot, considers various artist ecologies, cinematic and actual, and fantasizes a domicile to contain it all.
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Amy Werntz: Ordinary Moments, and Lloyd Brown: The Sky Should Know Me by Now (Recent Paintings of U.S. Highway 50), at Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Dallas, August 28–October…
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This week, Ethel Shipton finds that spilled paint is just another way to get there, and recalls the beginnings of friendship with Tracey Snelling, who writes about her summer 2003 experience at Sala Diaz.
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From Mighty Fine Arts: “During those dark days of the lockdown Mr Ant Colony shuttered himself away in his underground bunker and his only human contact was the US Mail. In…
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These stories, and those that follow, paint a picture of an artist-run-space of humble beginnings — grass roots that will never harden into an institutional surface.
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News
Contemporary Art Month, San Antonio Announces 2022 Venue, and Guest Curator Lauren Cross
by Glasstireby GlasstireCross, an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker, will return to San Antonio for the CAM Perennial, after having selected the 2020 Artpace residency cohort as guest curator.