Department Chair and Assistant Professor of Drawing
Nate Heuer has had diverse experience with a variety of
drawing and printmaking media. His recent
large-scale drawings investigate the architectural wreckage of an aggressively
consumerist economy, echoing the principle of Creative Destruction described by
the economist Joseph Schumpeter. His
work has been exhibited in numerous national and international exhibitions and
has been published in a variety of publications, including New American Paintings and Drawing
Essentials: A Complete Guide to Drawing.
Nate is also interested in issues of cognition and
perception, and he has regularly presented his research at international forums
such as the Cognitive Futures in the Humanities Conference at the University of
Oxford. He is particularly interested in
how representational and ideational drawing can be used to test the Extended Mind Thesis proposed by the
philosopher of mind Andy Clark, which posits the existence of extended loops of
cognition.
For more information, visit Nate Heuer’s website.