Up Close and Personal: Biennial Artists on Heckscher YouTube Channel

Throughout the exhibition, artists in The Body Politic: Long Island Biennial 2024 have shared their artwork, process, and inspiration with visitors to The Heckscher Museum galleries.  The diverse group of artists represents among the best of Long Island art, and vary by approach, media used, subject matter, and inspiration.  You can learn more about the work on view in videos now available on the Museum’s YouTube channel.

Check out the videos on the below.

See various artists in person on select Sundays through January 5, 2025.  Check the Museum calendar for specific dates and participating artists.

Images (Clockwise}: Monica Banks, Lattice Pie, 2023, digital archival print. The Body Politic: Long Island Biennial; Ruth Douzinas, Star Store, 2024, silkscreen kitchen rag, repaired with thread. The Body P olitic: Long Island Biennial; Angela Classi, Demeter in Central Park, 2023, oil on canvas. The Body Politic: Long Island Biennial; Andrea Baatz, Schooling Patterns: Discontinuity, 2022, silkscreen on YUPO paper. The Body Politic: Long Island Biennial; Maria Spector, Candy Girls Under the Sugar-Plum Tree with Boy and the Artists that Painted Women, 2022, gouache on paper. The Body Politic: Long Island Biennial.