Heather Day


Heather Day is an American artist and entrepreneur. She is known for her modern abstract murals and large-scale paintings and her work with the culinary-art startup, Studio Table. Her artwork has been featured in galleries and private collections in New York City, Madrid, Seoul, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. She is based in San Francisco, California.

Career

Heather Day grew up in Hawaii and along the East Coast of the United States. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting. Following graduation, she moved to San Francisco to expand her studio practice. Early in her career and after her graduation, she was outspoken about her use of social media for the promotion of the arts which was not common at that time.

Work

Day considers her work a form of visual storytelling, where each painting acts as a page to a larger story about “risk and comfort.” Citing the lines and textures of nature, travel, music and the depth of the color blue as her main sources of inspiration, Day works primarily with paint and non-traditional materials on canvas. She also works in both interior and exterior murals and experimental sculpture. Day painted a commissioned mural at the Dropbox office in Seattle, conveying movement and creating her own canvas by painting over existing design elements such as a moose head sculpture.
Aside from working with traditional painting materials, Day used her process to create the world's first augmented reality art for Facebook Camera in collaboration with Facebook's Applied Machine Learning group.
Using her social media platform as a vehicle for community discussion, Day addresses feminism, current political events and their impacts on the community, and entrepreneurship.
Day regards Helen Frankenthaler, Katharina Gross, Sam Gilliam, Agnes Martin, Willem DeKooning and Noah Purifoy as admirable artists.
Together with product manager Michelle Wei, Day co-founded a culinary-art startup company called Studio Table. Studio Table started in Day’s studio space in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.