Drew Heitzler

[Dave Monroe]

Dallas Report: A Contemporary Art Destination
TEXAS SEEN
John Zotos

Hidden away in the flatlands of north Texas lies the city of Dallas, a
large metropolis noteworthy now more than ever for a growing museum
network with large holdings of contemporary art in the downtown arts
district; it's a hub flanked on various sides with young commercial
gallery spaces. Fueled by a national interest in contemporary art, and
no shortage of money, the Dallas arts district thrives with
architectural spaces dedicated to art and performance designed by the
likes of Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas, and Norman Foster and Partners.
This energy has led to a concentration of new gallery spaces in a
former warehouse district on one side of town, complemented by the
same concentration of spaces in the design district on the other end.
Together these spaces exhibit local and international talent with the
goal of establishing the city as an art center.

On the east side of downtown, in a warehouse district, Angstrom
Projects strives to bring ambitious art to its walls. Currently on
view for the first time in Texas is the video, photo collage, and
installation art of Drew Heitzler, a participant in the 2008 Whitney
Biennial. Based in Los Angeles, Heitzler draws upon the foundational
position this cinema city occupies in the American psyche in order to
subvert assumptions about cultural hegemony, while questioning the
myths of progress that typically accompany the representation of
Hollywood in general, and the U.S. in particular. For example,
Heitzler seizes upon the figure of Thomas Pynchon, the rarely
photographed fiction writer whose work examines conspiracy and
paranoia. The installation includes a copy of a photograph of a young
Pynchon as well as a suite of photo-collage laser prints that supplant
"sunny California" with the grim consequences of the regions'
geological-based petrol industry....

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Drew Heitzler

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