Heather Guess is an American multi-media artist. While her central body of work is focused on photography, Ms. Guess is also a draughtsman and printmaker. In addition to her artwork, Ms. Guess has curated numerous exhibitions by select artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, ...
Heather Guess is an American multi-media artist. While her central body of work is focused on photography, Ms. Guess is also a draughtsman and printmaker. In addition to her artwork, Ms. Guess has curated numerous exhibitions by select artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Miro, and Pablo Picasso. Ms. Guess is also the owner of Untitled Fine Art, an entity that specializes in works on paper and sculpture by Modern and Contemporary artists.
Ms. Guess has a BFA from Kent State University and a dual Masters in Modern and Contemporary Art and the History of the Art Market from Christie's Education in New York. She has also studied Photography, Video and Design at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
In 2007, Guess began producing work that was exhibited at Artist Space in downtown Manhattan. As her oeuvre began to take shape, the artist utilized creative tools to conceal her gender or nationality, such as a pseudonym, in order to neuter any pre-existing notions that could be assigned to her art. This strategy continually informs both the artist and the viewer of inherent biases attached to both objects and works of art.
Guess's most prominent work portrays a combination of abstract and representational imagery. Like clues to a puzzle, Guess provides a few familiar references that elude to the whole, yet through various aesthetic choices of cropping and managing a delicate balance of positive and negative space, she creates a new lens to view mundane articles.
For Ms. Guess art is a passion and she is highly involved in community outreach in addition to the business side of art. Spliting her time between New York City and Cleveland, Ohio, she serves on several boards, namely the Art in Medicine Leadership Board for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and also the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at the Cleveland Institute of Art, helping students understand the complexities of the international art market. In New York she has been a longtime patron of the arts, supporting many of the museums and alternative arts non-profit entities.
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