My paintings live as dances 

In the same way my body archives memory, so too is the painting a vessel for time. My paintings are made up of many layers and the materiality of oil paint aids in the slow evolution of each piece. Layer by layer I add paint, scrape paint away, and apply more. I define and blurr shapes, revealing some parts of the painting while others become nearly invisible. My process is one of moving forward and returning, moving forward and returning, moving forward and returning. I delight in this scrambling of orientation, akin to a body’s play with gravity. Layers of the painting root over time into well-worn spatial and temporal contexts, concealing and revealing a part of the final image. With each layer, the world of the painting breaks open unto itself, establishing itself as a present moment within its own history. To offer a physical and visible sense of history is to acknowledge that something has happened. 

Your eyes are dancing as you see. Eyes of the viewer,

move side to side 

back to front 

front to back 

close to 

far away from 

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Zoe Huey [ they/them ] grew up and is currently residing on the unceded land of the Ohlone people- also known as Oakland. Zoe is a mark maker, painter, mover/performer, hand poke tattoo artist and dance teacher. Their visual work is largely inspired by lines, shapes, forms and color found in nature and everyday life - rocks found on the beach, peeling tree bark, all the different grays in a lawn of pebbles, blossoming fruit against houses painted bright colors, dewy spider webs, huge succulents, vast expanses of sky, shadows and light at golden hour. Zoe learns a lot about creativity, play, and improvisation from the kids they dance with. They are interested in how visual art and performance inform one another - in process and final form. Zoe is chinese american + white, nonbinary/gender pixelated, and currently in another cycle of growing out their hair from a buzz. It's in the awkward phase. Zoe makes dances with their sister.