Heide Fasnacht: Nature Once Removed

Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present Nature Once Removed, Heide Fasnacht's first solo exhibition with the gallery, opening Thursday, September 10, 2026.

Nature Once Removed brings together a new body of photo-based paintings built from archival photographs, digital manipulation, printed imagery, and hand-painted passages in acrylic. Layers of printer ink remain visible throughout the painted surface, becoming an integral part of each composition. Fasnacht constructs landscapes that accumulate over time. Earlier images remain embedded beneath later ones, building each work in geological layers where previous moments continue to press into the present.

The exhibition grows from Fasnacht's long engagement with damaged archival photographs. Scratches, folds, water damage, and fading become part of the image itself, generating new associations and new terrain. The weathered surfaces of the source photographs generate a second narrative that unfolds alongside the original image. A single damaged photograph often gives rise to multiple paintings, each uncovering a different landscape held within the original image. Photography becomes one material among many, folded into compositions where memory unfolds through material rather than narrative.

For Fasnacht, photographs function as excavations. They bridge remembered experience and forgotten histories while carrying the traces of their own making. The paintings allow those transformations to remain visible, holding multiple histories within a single surface.

Across Nature Once Removed, landscape becomes inseparable from memory. The paintings suggest that memory accumulates much like geology itself, built in layers that never fully conceal what came before.