About this Artist
Sue Heatley combines printmaking and painting techniques to express abstraction rooted in mark making. Over her thirty year studio practice, she has created collage-like compositions through applications of myriad materials, including acrylic paint, quick-drying pigments and ink, on varied backgrounds like textured linen and thick rag paper. In her linen paintings, Heatley works layer by layer; swooping brushwork, often in pale tones, obscure glimpses of contrasting tones beneath, adding an element of mystery to each painting. In recent works on paper, like Fool’s Forecast, her compositions evoke biomorphic forms through ethereal marks balanced on a muted ground.
Heatley received her BA in Art History from Hiram College in Ohio and later studied printmaking at the Richmond Printmaking Workshop in Virginia. She has exhibited at The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY; Site Brooklyn, NY; the International Print Center and Turn Gallery, both, New York, NY; 1708 Gallery, Quirk Gallery and The Visual Arts Center, all, Richmond, Virginia. Her work is represented in numerous public and corporate collections, including the United States Department of State, Washington, DC; Esteé Lauder Companies, New York, NY; Special Collections and Archives of Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Hunton & Williams and Owens & Minor, all, Richmond, VA.
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SUE HEATLEY
Richmond, VA
EDUCATION
BA in Art History, Hiram College, Hiram, OH
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Showdown, Deborah Buck, Jennifer Cross, Denise Gale, Janet Goleas, Sue Heatley,
Christa Maiwald, Claire Watson, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
Faculty & Student Exhibition, Studio School, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Floating: True to Form, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2022
Flicker, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2021
Day Trip; Patrick Berran, James Busby, David Freed, Philip Geiger, Sue Heatley, Kiyomi Iwata,
Ray Kass, Joseph Seipel, Mary Temple, Jack Wax, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2020
Southern Exposure, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
Rhythms of Abstraction, Gustavo Bonevardi, Sue Heatley, Hector Leonardi, Vincent Longo
Aya Miyatake, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
Ink: New Prints, curator: Laura Einstein, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
All Together, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2019
Faculty Exhibition, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2018
Winter Salon, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2017
Sue Heatley paintings, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
Sue Heatley: The Noise of the Day, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016
Editions & Monoprints: Jennifer Bartlett, Sue Heatley, Vincent Longo, Dan Rizzie
The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2015
True Monotypes, curator: Janice Oresman, International Print Center New York
Paper Garden, Turn Gallery, New York
ONE/OFF, Hill Gallery, Richmond, VA
2014
Winter Salon, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
Sue Heatley: New works on paper, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2013
Stephen Antonakos, Alice Aycock, Mary Ellen Bartley, Sue Heatley,
Costantino Nivola, Toni Ross, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
Sensoria, Art Sites, Riverhead, NY
Sue Heatley, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VAONE/OFF, Virginia Museum Studio School, Richmond, VA
2012
Proof of Printing, Main Art Gallery, Richmond, VA
Faculty Exhibition, Virginia Museum Studio School, Richmond, VA
Forms of Suggestion, Chroma Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA
Shimmer, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2011
Sue Heatley, Keyes Art Project, New York, NY
Small Works, Main Art Gallery, Richmond, VA
Richmond Printmakers, Chroma Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA
Art-O-Mat 10th Anniversary Exhibition, The Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA
Think Small, ArtSpace, Richmond, VA
2009
Artists of the Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY
2008
Orbiting Abstraction, Surface Library, East Hampton, NY
2007
Open Studio, East Hampton, NY
2006
Symbiosis, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2004
Protology, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2003
Ceramic Sculpture, St. Catherine’s School, Richmond, VA
25 X 25, Anniversary Exhibition for 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Food for Thought, Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center, Glen Allen, VA
Ceramic Sculpture, Collegiate School, Richmond, VA
2002
Strange Love, Main Art Gallery, Richmond, VA
Small Works Exhibition, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Faculty Exhibition, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2001
Small Works Exhibition, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Faculty Exhibition, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2000
Crafts at the Castle, juried craft show, Boston, MA
1999
Smithsonian Craft Show, juried craft show, Washington, DC
Crafts at the Castle, juried craft show, Boston, MA
PUBLICATIONS
Jennifer Landes, Vernal Yearning at The Drawing Room, East Hampton Star March 12, 2020.
Singular & Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint, Kernan, Catherine. 2019
Hamptons Cottages and Gardens, August 2014
Beach Magazine, August 2014
Stephanie De Troy, Subtle Works in Reflective Space at The Drawing Room,
Dan’s Papers, December 7, 2013
Surface Decoration for Low Fire Ceramics, Peters, Lynn. 1998
Ceramics Monthly Magazine, May 1998
RESIDENCIES
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, April-May 2019
Flat Bed Press, Austin, TX, August 2019
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Estée Lauder Companies, New York, NY
Hunton & Williams, LLP, Richmond, VA
Media General Company, New York, NY
Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, McCloy, New York, NY
Owens & Minor, Inc., Richmond, VA
United States Department of State, Washington, DC
Wheat First Securities, Richmond, VA
Virginia Commonwealth University, Special Collections and Archives, Richmond, VA
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