My Pet Ram is excited to announce our participation in David Zwirner’s Platform with new works by Heather Drayzen and Zuriel Waters available exclusively on their site through January 15, 2024. Please continue reading for more information about the artists and their featured paintings.
Zuriel Waters
Corpus Daisy, 2023
Custom fabric paint on sagless burlap, cotton duck, upholstery thread, hardware
45 x 34 inches
$4,200
Heather Drayzen
Greenpoint Diner Date, 2023
Oil on linen
20 x 16 inches
$2,340
Zuriel Waters
Skittle Shade, 2023
Custom fabric paint on sagless burlap, canvas, upholstery thread, hardware
42 x 28 inches
$3,800
Heather Drayzen
Dan Pony, 2023
Oil on linen
18 x 14 inches
$2,000
Zuriel Waters
Metro Maid, 2023
Acrylic on jute and cotton duck, upholstery thread, hardware
39 x 27 inches
$3,800
Heather Drayzen
Kimby at Frankies, 2023
Oil on linen
20 x 16 inches
$2,340
Zuriel Waters
Ooze Groove, 2023
Custom fabric paint on canvas, cotton duck, upholstery thread, hardware
38 x 30 inches
$3,400
Heather Drayzen
JD Raenbeau, 2023
Oil on linen
16 x 12 incheS
$1,800
Brooklyn-based artist, Heather Drayzen (b.1985), draws upon her lived experiences, interior world, and emotions with a tender and intimate touch. She primarily paints small-scale portraits and domestic scenes in oil on linen, often featuring herself and those she cherishes in quiet moments. Experiences like sharing a cup of morning coffee, grabbing a bite from the fridge, or taking a nap with the pups take place in an atmosphere of iridescent golden light, highlighting the passage of time while nodding to great colorists of art history: Bonnard, Vuillard, Morisot, and Munch. The chromatic intensity and subject matter of Drayzen’s work are, nonetheless, undeniably contemporary. Jewel-like fields of day-glo color contrast with subtle neutral tones, tapping into a full on sensory experience of moments borne within our modern life. She renders descriptive elements with varying levels of information to summon a profound psychological energy intermittently sitting between figuration and abstraction. Each painting is a vignette within the larger narrative of her life, and when viewed together they reveal the feeling of a life lived along with a genuine emotional history.
Brooklyn-based artist, Zuriel Waters’ (b. 1984) work is constructed entirely from sewn fabric and hand-ground acrylic paint. There is no wooden armature and they are very flat. Small dress pins hold the work to the wall via very thin d-rings which are sewn into the topstitch on the reverse side. From the beginning of this project the work has always been meant to fold up, each iteration carefully planned to fit inside a box. They are designed to give a maximum amount of wallspace with a minimum amount of storage.
Each piece is created one-after the-other, never simultaneously, in an iterative process which retains traces of time of year as well as my temporal psychological condition. Because they are so rooted in seasonality I sometimes think of them as a form of fashion design. I also collect a lot of color information from walks around my neighborhood and in this way the work participates in a constructivist reduction of the urban environment, a kind of futurist landscape painting.