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Daniel Heyman

PROFILE

Daniel Heyman, painter and printmaker, holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania (’91) and a BA cum laude from Dartmouth College (’85). His work has been shown in solo shows in New York at the 55 Mercer Gallery (four exhibitions) and Gallery B.A.I.; in Philadelphia at the Fleisher Art Memorial, Mangel Gallery (two exhibitions), Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, and the Philadelphia Art Alliance; at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA; in Los Angeles at The Advocate Gallery at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Center; as well as in galleries in San Francisco, Hartford, and Sydney, Australia. His work is in many public and private collections including the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Hood Museum of Art, the Portland (ME) Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.

Heyman’s work has been included in many group shows both regional and national including exhibitions at the International Print Center (’07), Moore College of Art (’02, ’04), The Fleisher Art Memorial (Challenge Exhibition ’05), The Portland (ME) Museum of Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and Union College Art Gallery in Schenectady, New York. He has been awarded an AMJ Foundation Grant (’06), an Independence Foundation Grant (’05-’06), a 5-County Arts Fund Grant (’05), a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts S.O.S. Grant (’05), two Professional Development Grants from The Rhode Island School of Design (’07 and ’05), a James B. Reynolds International Fellowship (France) from Dartmouth College (‘86-‘87), and residencies at St. Michael’s College, (Colchester, VT, ’04), the Nagasawa Art Park Printmaking Program (Japan, ’02), and the Millay Colony for the Arts (Forest Fellow, ’94).

His work was featured in Male Desire: Homosexual Desire in American Art, (Harry Abrams, ’05) written by the noted art historian Jonathan Weinberg, and has been reviewed by The Philadelphia Inquirer, City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly, Artblog, The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, France Ouest, and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others. He spoke on a panel titled “Artists Speak Out on Civil Liberties,” that included political comedian Greg Proops and ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner, at the 2006 ACLU Membership Conference in Washington, DC, and was a featured interviewee on Comcast Newsmakers in February 2007. He has organized numerous group exhibitions, including “Moku Hanga and Contemporary Art” (2006) at the Centre International des Arts Contemporain in Pont Aven, France, and “Out of Nagasawa: Japanese Technique Prints from Around the World” at 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, 2003. As a teacher, Heyman has lectured widely, often giving demonstrations of Japanese printmaking techniques, and has taught at many institutions including the Rhode Island School of Design; Tyler School of Art; The Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in Pont Aven, France; Philadelphia University; and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Heyman is fluent in French, and lives with his partner in Philadelphia. He currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and Swarthmore College.

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	Daniel Heyman INTRODUCTION \| INVENTORY PROFILE see also ESSAY VIDEO Daniel Heyman, painter and printmaker, holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania (’91) and a BA cum laude from Dartmouth College (’85). His work has been shown in solo shows in New York at the 55 Mercer Gallery (four exhibitions) and Gallery B.A.I.; in Philadelphia at the Fleisher Art Memorial, Mangel Gallery (two exhibitions), Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, and the Philadelphia Art Alliance; at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA; in Los Angeles at The Advocate Gallery at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Center; as well as in galleries in San Francisco, Hartford, and Sydney, Australia. His work is in many public and private collections including the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Hood Museum of Art, the Portland (ME) Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Heyman’s work has been included in many group shows both regional and national including exhibitions at the International Print Center (’07), Moore College of Art (’02, ’04), The Fleisher Art Memorial (Challenge Exhibition ’05), The Portland (ME) Museum of Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and Union College Art Gallery in Schenectady, New York. He has been awarded an AMJ Foundation Grant (’06), an Independence Foundation Grant (’05-’06), a 5-County Arts Fund Grant (’05), a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts S.O.S. Grant (’05), two Professional Development Grants from The Rhode Island School of Design (’07 and ’05), a James B. Reynolds International Fellowship (France) from Dartmouth College (‘86-‘87), and residencies at St. Michael’s College, (Colchester, VT, ’04), the Nagasawa Art Park Printmaking Program (Japan, ’02), and the Millay Colony for the Arts (Forest Fellow, ’94). His work was featured in Male Desire: Homosexual Desire in American Art, (Harry Abrams, ’05) written by the noted art historian Jonathan Weinberg, and has been reviewed by The Philadelphia Inquirer, City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly, Artblog, The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, France Ouest, and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others. He spoke on a panel titled “Artists Speak Out on Civil Liberties,” that included political comedian Greg Proops and ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner, at the 2006 ACLU Membership Conference in Washington, DC, and was a featured interviewee on Comcast Newsmakers in February 2007. He has organized numerous group exhibitions, including “Moku Hanga and Contemporary Art” (2006) at the Centre International des Arts Contemporain in Pont Aven, France, and “Out of Nagasawa: Japanese Technique Prints from Around the World” at 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, 2003. As a teacher, Heyman has lectured widely, often giving demonstrations of Japanese printmaking techniques, and has taught at many institutions including the Rhode Island School of Design; Tyler School of Art; The Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in Pont Aven, France; Philadelphia University; and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Heyman is fluent in French, and lives with his partner in Philadelphia. He currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and Swarthmore College.

	ESSAY Since March 2006, Heyman has traveled to Amman, Jordan and Istanbul, Turkey at the invitation of Philadelphia law firm Burke Pyle LLC to participate in interviews that the firm, along with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, and Detroit law firm Akeel and Valentine PLC were conducting. The lawyers were gathering evidence for a class action lawsuit on behalf of dormer detainees at Abu Ghraib Prison. Heyman witnessed the interviews and created drypoint prints in an effort to attach personal faces to the Abu Ghraib story. Heyman explains his process: "I sit in this hotel room and draw the face of an Iraqi who is telling the most humiliating and degrading story of his life. I try to disappear. I draw, first a small sketch on a scrap of paper, and then a copper plate using a stylus. As I listen and draw, I am also inscribing the words I hear into the copper, backwards. I have to write very quickly, so that I do not lose the thread of the story.” Heyman sought to create portraits of these men and women to restore their dignity and individuality to the world at large. Most Americans are familiar with the disturbing photographic images in which victims of abuse are hooded, unclothed, and anonymous. In Heyman’s prints, the detainees’ faces, as well as personal details emerge. In the catalog for this body of work, Philadelphia Museum of Art Associate Curator for Prints and Drawings Shelley R. Langdale writes: “…rather than portraying the former prisoners in their victimized state, … here Heyman takes advantage of his first-hand experience to focus on them as people. He reclaims their humanity by showing them seated in suits and ties, shirtsleeves or a patterned shawl, as he encountered them when they related their testimony and spoke of their homes, families and friends.” Daniel Heyman, painter and printmaker, holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania (’91) and a BA cum laude from Dartmouth College (’85). His work has been shown in solo shows in New York at the 55 Mercer Gallery (four exhibitions) and Gallery B.A.I.; in Philadelphia at the Fleisher Art Memorial, Mangel Gallery (two exhibitions), Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, and the Philadelphia Art Alliance; at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA; in Los Angeles at The Advocate Gallery at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Center; as well as in galleries in San Francisco, Hartford, and Sydney, Australia. His work is in many public and private collections including the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Hood Museum of Art, the Portland (ME) Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and the Yale University Gallery. His work has been reviewed by The Philadelphia Inquirer, City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly, Artblog, The New York Times, The Hartford Current, France Ouest, and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others. Heyman lives with his partner in Philadelphia. Heyman currently teaches at Rhode Island School of Design and Swarthmore College.

	Vincent Romaniello Video Interviews Daniel Heyman, Abu Ghraib Part One The torture isn't over and the story isn't over for the victims. Artist, Daniel Heyman, flew to the Middle East to witness and record the testimony of former victims of torture at Abu Ghraib through his artwork. Attorney Susan Burke and a number of other concerned Americans have brought a suit against those responsible for the horror at Abu Ghraib. Jacqueline van Rhyn, the curator of an exhibition of Daniel's work at the Print Center, takes us through the show.

	Daniel Heyman, Abu Ghraib Part Two Shelley Langdale, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, delves deep into to details of Daniel's work and gives us insight into what she feels makes this work so powerful. She is joined by Jacqueline van Rhyn, curator for an exhibition currently at the Print Center that features Daniel's prints and pages from his new book. An amazing stencil covers the entire floor of the gallery. Attorney Susan Burke talks about the current situation concerning torture by this administration. Video courtesy of Vincent Romaniello. CLICK HERE...to visit his vlog.
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