“Girl Power” Show Debuts Feb. 10 at Amy Art Gallery + Studio
NAPLES (Jan. 29) – “Girl Power” is the theme of a new exhibit at Amy Art Gallery + Studio, showcasing “The Girls” paintings, a popular series of artworks created by artist Amy Moglia Heuerman. The show opens on Monday, Feb. 10, and will continue through March 31, 2025.
“The Girls” paintings have been enthusiastically received by collectors drawn to their whimsical expressions that evoke joy and playfulness. The paintings feature faceless figures in dancing movements against Heuerman’s signature layered backgrounds. Combining figurative and abstract styles, “The Girls” collection ranges from paintings with simple, youthful exuberance to more complex attitudes with intricate, colorful patterns in the figures’ attires.
The paintings are available in multiple sizes, from as small as 12x12 inches to as large as 60x72 inches.
“The Girls” paintings will be exhibited in Heuerman’s Amy Art Gallery + Studio, located at 950 1st Avenue North in the Naples Design District. The gallery is a loft-like space bathed in light streaming through soaring, double-height wraparound windows. There are several areas of exhibit space featuring Heuerman’s artwork, a reception area, and salon style seating.
Heuerman commented that, “’The Girls’ are a series of characters that I paint to express the joy and freedom of my inner child. I leave them faceless so that the focus is on the emotional expression of their bodies. The main thing is that they are primitive and raw. They are meant to be paintings of feelings and not portraits.”
“The Girls” paintings evolved from the artist’s emotional reaction to the communal aloneness experienced during the Covid era. She said, “I felt the solitude that people experienced and painted my feelings of being safe and protected. At first, they were isolated figures against pale backgrounds, showing the ‘alone but together’ mood in society. Later, they became individual figures representing innocence and freedom.”
She continued, “The ‘Girl Power’ theme of the show speaks to everyone! I’ve been gratified that the paintings are collected by both men and women for a variety of spaces, from girls’ bedrooms to elegant foyers.”
Heuerman paints in a variety of genres. The “Girl Power” paintings will be exhibited alongside Heuerman’s abstract “Color Play series of paintings, as well as her coastal scenes.
Visitors to Amy Art Gallery + Studio are delighted to find the artist in paint-spattered clothes in the middle of painting in the studio alcove within the gallery. She welcomes visitors and enjoys sharing her thoughts about what she is working on, or about her process in general.
Heuerman’s journey as an artist started early in life. As a student in Rumson, New Jersey, she charmed teachers and classmates with her imaginative drawings. As an entrepreneur as well as an artist, she launched Scribbles after completing her education, producing calling cards, announcements and invitations. With business acumen, she grew her company over the years to create Bear Hug Designs. She drew children’s illustrations for books, games, puzzles, and gift products. The business boomed and transitioned into a licensing enterprise that allowed her to create while others handled production.
After retiring Bear Hug Designs, Heuerman’s urge to express herself found a surprising outlet. Following years of painting highly detailed, small and fanciful figures, she was moved to freely express herself with broad, bold strokes on large canvases. The calling first found an outlet with coastal scenes inspired by her life on the shores of Florida’s Gulf of America and Michigan’s Lake Michigan. The coastal paintings eventually became more suggestive of water, sky and colorful horizons, rather than literal representations. Soon her work evolved into impressionistic abstract paintings that have defined her as an original artist with a unique point of view.
Amy Moglia Heuerman is a prolific painter as well as the owner of two Amy Art Gallery + Studio galleries that showcase her work, one in Naples, Fla., and the other in Bay Harbor, Mich. Both galleries include studio space where Amy creates her colorful and uplifting canvases. She is represented by District Gallery in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
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