Willy Heeks
William E. F. Heeks, Jr., popularly known as Willy Heeks, is an American visual artist who is known for producing abstract expressionist paintings.
Early life
Heeks was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1951 and spent his childhood there.
Education
Heeks participated in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1973), earned a BFA from the University of Rhode Island (1973), and studied at the Tyler School of Art, Graduate Program, Philadelphia, PA (1978). He received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island College (1995).
Career
Heeks lived and painted in New York City for many years before returning to his native Rhode Island in the 1990s. He currently resides there.
Awards & Grants
- Recipient: Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1978
- Recipient: Visual Artist Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1980
- Special Projects Exhibition, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY, 1982
- Recipient: Harriet and Esteban Vicente Fellowship in Painting, 1984
- Recipient: Visual Artist Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, 1984
- Recipient: Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, 1985[1]
- Recipient: Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1987
- Recipient: Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1989[2]
- Recipient: Painting Award, American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, 1989[3]
- Recipient: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island College, 1995
- Recipient: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 1997
- Recipient: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2004
- Recipient: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, 2004
The following Museums and Institutions hold Heeks’ work:
- BP America, Cleveland, OH
- Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
- Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
- Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
- Dow Jones, Inc., New York, NY
- Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Chicago, IL
- Henry Kaufman & Co., New York, NY
- Industrial National Bank, Providence, RI
- Inter-Metro Industries Corporation, Wilkes-Barre, PA
- Jefferson Bank, Philadelphia, PA
- Little Caesar's, Inc., Detroit, MI
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
- Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
- Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
- NYNEX, White Plains, NY
- Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass
- Piper and Marbury, New York, NY
- Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
- Progressive Corporation, Shaker Heights, OH
- Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
- Quad Graphics, Suffix, WI
- Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, NY
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Sherman & Sterling, New York, NY
- Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
- Southeast Banking Corporation, Miami, FL
- Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
- Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
- University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
- Williams & Sonoma, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Articles: [4]
References
- ↑ "The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation". louiscomforttiffanyfoundation.org. Retrieved 02/01/2015. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ "National Endowment for the Arts 1989 Annual Report" (PDF). http://arts.gov''. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
- ↑ "American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards". artsandletters.org. Retrieved 02/01/2015. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Pincus, Robert (07/06/2006). "Finding Their Ways: Artists Offer Us a Chance to See Their Worlds". San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 2015-01-31. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Jack, James (2007-01-26). "The Keeper of Space". Portland State Vanguard. Retrieved 2015-01-31.
- ↑ Sweeney, Louise (1991-09-30). "A Breed Apart: Artists Reinterpret Abstraction". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2015-01-31.
- ↑ Richard, Paul. "Abstract and Personal At the Corcoran Biennial, A Passionate Bow to the Past" (PDF). The Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ↑ Swanhuyser, Hiya (2008-06-25). "A Colorful Character". San Francisco Weekly. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ↑ Sozanski, Edward (1988-05-05). "Styled Spontaneity Marks An Exhibit of Willy Heeks Works". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
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