Harley Healy

Instagram: harley.healy

Website: http://sierraharris.com

Bio: Harley Healy (b. 1997) is a visual artist living in San Francisco, CA. She received her BFA in Photography from California State University, Long Beach in Spring of 2022. For the last year, Healy has been using her own shadow as a medium. This body of work began as a material exploration of a found belt buckle and soon began telling the story of displaced bats, and whether we have control over our lives and narratives at all. This resulted in an artist's book and a three-act play that traveled from New York to Colorado and ended in California. Healy enjoys the art-making process as a means of creating larger-than-life narratives, this act of storytelling is central to her practice.

Statement: Harley Healy investigates the blurring and ever-changing boundaries between public, psychological, and personal space. Emphasizing feelings of loss and longing is apparent in the innate deterioration, misinformation, and miscommunication between these worlds. She is interested in seeing the deprivation of information and degradation as a form of its own. Considering the passage of time as a loss, but with that privation, a new narrative is born- riding on the cusp of fact and fiction. Her work often employs written language and performance culminating most often in acts of gift-giving.