Blue Hour Artist Feature: Heather Evans Smith
BLUE HOUR
November 4 – December 21, 2022
Candela Gallery presents Blue Hour, a group exhibition inspired by seasonal depression, featuring photographic works by Granville Carroll, Peter Cochrane, Heather Evans Smith, Dylan Hausthor, Galina Kurlat, Raymond Thompson Jr, and Em White.
HEATHER EVANS SMITH
Paint it Blue, 2021. Archival Pigment Print, 32 x 40 inches.
$2250 Print; $2850 Framed. Edition 2 of 5. SHOP >
Large, blue, domestic scenes in the Blue Hour exhibition are the works of Chapel Hill photographer, Heather Evans Smith. The images, vivid and unsettling, reference personal feelings of loss and isolation but speak to a larger phenomenon of depression in women in their mid-40s, especially those with children.
Until There’s Little Left, 2021. Archival Pigment Print,
16 x 20 inches, Framed. Edition 1 of 10. $1125. SHOP >
Veneer, 2021. Archival Pigment Print,
16 x 20 inches, Framed. Edition 1 of 10. $1125. SHOP >
Some say my dad's death was the spark that ignited my depression, but this feeling has been brewing for a while. I started to notice a sadness creep in a few years into my 40s. I searched “depression in women” and stumbled across articles stating women are the most depressed at age 44. I was at that very moment 44.
Loss during this time in a woman’s life can weigh heavily. Children are getting older and need the comfort of a parent less; the health of one’s own parent(s) is starting to fail, and hormonal shifts begin.
Using the color blue, which for hundreds of years has been associated with melancholy and sadness-these images evoke this period in my life and how it affects those around me. A midpoint, as I am stripping down, taking stock, and finding a new place amongst the loss.
Boundary, 2021. Archival Pigment Print, 24 x 30 inches, Framed.
Edition 1 of 7. $1700. SHOP >
"Movement and pain and the simple joys of being alive are frozen in time."
Heather Evans Smith is a North Carolina-based photographer who uses whimsy and storytelling to relay themes of womanhood, motherhood, family, and loss. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Evans Smith is a Critical Mass 2014, 2018 and 2021 Top 50 recipient and a 2022 Silver List artist. Blue is her third monograph and her work is in multiple private collections around the U.S.
Conservatory, 2022. Archival Pigment Print, 50 x 40 inches. Edition 2 of 3.
$3500 Print, $4500 Framed. SHOP >
Blue by Heather Evans Smith is available at Candela