Heloisa Pomfret
Heloisa Pomfret · Source: New York Artists Circle · Rights retained by the original rights holders
- Medium
- Clay, Fiber, Graphite, Ink, Oil Paint, Oil Pastel/Crayon
- Practice
- Ceramics, Drawing, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Stitching
Heloisa Pomfret is a Brazilian/American interdisciplinary visual artist. She earned an M.A. and an M.F.A in Painting/Drawing from Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan. She also earned a Bachelors's degree in Journa… Full biography
Biography
Heloisa Pomfret is a Brazilian/American interdisciplinary visual artist. She earned an M.A. and an M.F.A in Painting/Drawing from Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan. She also earned a Bachelors's degree in Journalism from Casper Libero College in Sao Paulo Brazil.
She moved to New York City and began exhibiting at the G.R. N’Namdi Gallery in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Miami.
She has exhibited her inter-disciplinary work both nationally and internationally and attended residencies in Berlin Germany, the United States, France, Portugal, and Italy, including the American Academy of Rome and Mass MoCA. She has conducted a workshop in printmaking with clay in Portugal and also given artist talks and exhibitions broadly.
Her body of work includes painting, drawing, collages, ceramics, and cut-out installations. Her paintings involve the palimpsest process, where layers of paint are scratched to reveal further paint beneath. The canvas is cut and re-stitched, creating an abstract work on the margins of painting/drawing and sculpture. The imagery in the paintings, installation, and ceramics are inspired by the research on the physiology of the brain and the behavioral sciences.
The artist divides her time between Detroit and New York City.
Artist statement
The philosophy of my work is about the energy, order, and chaos that occurs during psychological or physical stress, which serves as theoretical support to the mark-making and constructs of my images. The surface is often an analogy to the body and memory, in which experience occurs and is transformed. The visual elements of the brain and its elements, along with its scientific charting and diagrams, serve as an inspiration and a starting point of abstraction for paintings/drawings and installations, in both traditional and non-traditional materials.
My work involves the transformation first from the idea of an impulse to scientific representation and measurement, and then second, through representation back to abstracted mark-making, color, texture, and re-purposed and re-constructed materials.
My paintings on canvas and on paper involve the palimpsest process, where layers of paint are scratched to reveal further paint beneath. The canvas is cut and re-stitched, creating an abstract work on the margins of painting/drawing and sculpture.
