Cliff Hengst
Personal Space Story, 2020

diptych, watercolor on paper
33”H x 25”W (each) 

ARTWORK STATEMENT:

This work is the culmination of many smaller works made during the pandemic. It’s about the space we carry ourselves in, and how we deal with entering the spaces of other living things.

Artist Bio:

Cliff Hengst is an artist and performer who works and lives in San Francisco. He has exhibited work at SFMOMA, Southern Exposure, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and Gallery 16 in San Francisco. Hengst has performed and exhibited at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles; the Machine Project in Los Angeles; the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York; the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.