AIRBRUSH TO AI: FIFTY YEARS OF REINVENTION
A RETROSPECTIVE BY PATTI HEIDDecember 4-27, 2025
Artist Reception Thursday, December 4, 6-10 pm
in conjunction with DTLA ArtNight
Patti Heid is a multi-media artist who has lived around the world and is currently based in Malibu in a house/studio she architecturally designed. She is renowned for her technical mastery and wildly imaginative imagery. This expansive show aggregates five decades of Heid’s work, encompassing airbrush, digital imaging, collage, neon, installation, bead and sequin embellished works, and AI pieces. Each is infused with a sense of magical realism, telling stories – many autobiographical – in a way that is both narrative and fantastical.
Throughout her body of work, Heid has transformed memory, trauma, and life’s myriad challenges into personal yet universal statements on love, loss, perseverance, and redemption. Her subject matter also leads with commentary on social, political, and environmental issues in times of societal upheaval. From her lush, luminous airbrushing of the 1970s to her pioneering digital imagery of the 1980s, and AI experiments during the Covid lockdown, the exhibition lyrically documents five decades of imaginative artistic evolution and technical innovation.
At the same time that she looks back with a retrospective timeline survey, she moves ahead with a deep dive into AI, and a monumental new multi-media piece created for the show, “A Dear in the Headlights.” The site-specific installation lined with 32 12x12” semi-auto-biographical paintings. The piece also includes an AI film, crystal trees and two taxidermy deer.
Featuring rich layering and figurative representation against abstracted landscapes and backgrounds, each work rises phoenix-like. With immense mastery Patti Heid turns struggle into unexpected visions of beauty.
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