Daniel Heyman-ADRIFT – Selected Washi Works 2017-2025 at the Tremaine Art Gallery in Lakeville

Sept. 5 to Oct. 11, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, Oct. 4, from 4 to 6 p.m.

The Hotchkiss School’s Tremaine Art Gallery presents the works of Daniel Heyman from Sept. 5 to Oct. 11. Heyman has spent 20 years going back and forth to Japan to make paintings out of paper pulp at the Awagami Paper Factory. Starting with the idea of flowing water, an important element in the making of paper, Heyman shows us a world of sunsets over serene ponds, threatening seas, capsized boats, landing geese, and swimmers all in lush and vibrant colors.

After a lifetime of making work that addressed subjects including human rights abuses and the destruction of war, Heyman has created a body of more personal work, much of which was created during this past summer at Awagami.

Heyman (Dartmouth AB 1985; UPenn MFA 1991) is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010) and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2009). He has been an artist in residence at Dartmouth College, MacDowell, Yaddo, Fine Arts Workshop, and several times at the Awagami Paper Factory in Japan, where he returned in July 2025. Heyman’s work is in collections across the U.S., including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, Yale University Art Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, St. Louis Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the Getty Research Institute.