Heather Brammeier is a sculptor, painter, and installation artist who has exhibited internationally, including Australia, Germany, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay. Brammeier, together with and alumni from the School of Visual Arts (NY) Residency program, founded the international I Found U Collective. Brammeier is a Professor of Art at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, USA. Through innovative use of materials and deceptively simple design, she creates visual puzzles that invite movement in and around the artwork. Large environments test physical and perceptual boundaries, mirroring emotional and psychological limits. Vertiginous stacking, attention to surfaces, and the use of light and shadow elicit contemplation of safety and threat; love and loss; and the complexity of emotional experience. People in these environments can touch, play, listen, laugh, and cry.

Heather came to ´ace to engage with the walls in our terrace, participating in our Palimpsest–Mural Painting Residency program. In her own words, “The Palimpsest Project created the unique opportunity to collaborate with artwork previously created. ‘Palimpsest’ often refers to a ghost image on a printmaking plate or aged painting. Painting in collaboration with people I had never met and will likely never meet, I had the sensation of chasing ghosts. I felt as if I were both drawing and carving with paint, guided by the artists who came before me. I responded directly to existing marks and imagery, weaving my own lines like tunnels through a two-dimensional space. The biomorphic forms I use in personal drawings and paintings are instantly recognizable, but in a form that would never have taken shape without the Palimpsest premise.”