Mushroom (877). Boston, 2021
Image 9 x 13.5 inches on 13 x 17 paper, 2/12
Greg Heins
Greg Heins is a self-taught photographer, beginning after his university graduation with a degree in English Literature. His color photographs seek to frame and organize formal relationships within the “overlooked ordinary,” scenes that anyone could see, places that anyone could go.
“I’m interested in the look of things. My photographs spring from seeing formal qualities and visual relationships, often semi-expressed or inchoate. I look for something to catch my eye, to wave me over, to ask me to make a photograph and realize these perceptions in print form. The process is visual, not driven by a preconceived idea, not illustrating an assigned subject matter. The artistic impulse is driven by age and loss, anger and regret, and seeks play, freedom, and joy.”
His photographs are in the collections of the Smith College Museum of Art, the Bowdoin College Art Museum, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Colby College Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
