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"I grew up in Wyoming. Unlike other cowboys I liked to paint and play the clarinet. I dreamed of the big city. My father said I should go to New York. So I did. And in 1983 I received my Masters on clarinet from Brooklyn College CUNY and got to play Lincoln Center & Carnegie Hall. But, my favorite venue was always Grand Central on a Saturday Night with the New York Clarinet Quartet which I founded in the 80s. And then my wife died of cancer in 1993. I found myself unemployed with two small children in Brooklyn. No time for clarinet. I found a nanny and brought her over from London while I tried to figure out what to do with my life.
"And then I got a call from the wife of a friend of my wife from from the Art Student's League. They had recently moved to Seattle to open an artist academy there. She said she and her husbund were sponsoring a painting workshop in Taos and wondered if I had access to a truck. She knew I was from Wyoming. I said I did. My twin brother had a truck. I asked if I could bring my paints and she asked, "you paint?" I said, "yes". And so, I went to Wyoming, got the truck and came to Taos, paint brush in hand. One day, while loading the truck with easels and paintings, the instructor asked, "whose painting is that?" I responded, "Mine". He responded "Wow!" And I decided it was time to paint. I went back to New York, packed up the kids to move back west. I had never heard of Blumenshein, I just knew I wanted to paint."
Alan Heuer has been Painting New Mexico since he visited from New York City in 1995. A 21st Century Taos Icon he considers himself a Taos post modernist following in the tradition of the Taos Society of Artists. As a first-time participant in the 2006 Taos Fall Arts Festival, he won the prestigious Taos Invites Taos "Best Representational Painting."
When he's not painting Taos, Heuer likes to create visionary paintings which combine multiple geographic locations into one painting, a sort of "hyper-reality" he has coined as "Utopic Displacement". "Utopia literally means nowhere, but these paintings contain multiple somewheres, thus they are both real and imagined, they are utopias displaced."
Collected in the US and abroad, Heuer is featured in "Best of America Oil Volume II" and has been invited to be featured in "Best of World Oil Volume I".
Where to buy Alan Heuer's art:
While in Taos you may Sage Fine Art on the Plaza. Online you may peruse his Indexes of Paintings for Sale. |