Lilah Heyman is a painter, drawer, printmaker, and embroiderer who currently resides in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BFA in Studio Arts from Fairfield University in 2021. She completed her MFA in Visual Arts with an emphasis on painting at Western Connecticut State University. Lilah Heyman currently works as an Arts
Educator to teens at the One River School in Westport, CT, and as an Arts Educator and Social Media Manager at the Art in Common NonProfit in Ridgefield, CT.
Lilah Heyman creates still lives and interior scenes focused on intimacy in one’s private life from observation. She is interested in the documentation of daily life, and how beauty and complexity can be found within an intimate space. She further investigates these subjects with the use of color, light, and mark-making. In her work, she accentuates the bright, fun colors that can be found when studying an object. She is also interested in finding occurrences of pattern and repetition in her daily life and connecting it with her artwork. She is inspired by artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Alice Neel, Henri Matisse, Rachel Campbell, Sari Shryack, and Sophie Treppendahl.
Lilah’s work has been in several exhibitions, such as the Bruce Kershner Gallery’s three person show, The Way We Are, in 2023. Her work has also been exhibited in juried shows by the Rowayton Arts Center, Arts Center East in Vernon, CT, and the New Haven Paint Club. She currently is exhibiting work as an artist in the 73rd A-One Juried Exhibition at the Silvermine Arts Center, and the Small Works Show at the Rhode Island Watercolor Society. At the Bruce S. Kershner Gallery’s 2022 community show, New Beginnings… After the Pause, she placed third in the People’s Choice Awards. She has an upcoming solo show at Art in Common Gallery in October of 2023. Lilah Heyman was also awarded Fairfield University’s CAS Arts & Sciences Award for Distinguished Work in Visual and Expressive Arts in 2021.
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