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Hidden Harmony
Joshua Rampage, Britt Henze
Thursday March 12th, 6-9pm
On view thru April 16
On view thru April 16
Heron Arts is pleased to announce Hidden Harmony, a duo exhibition featuring Lady Henze and Joshua Rampage. The opening reception for Hidden Harmony is Thursday, March 12th, 2026 from 6-9pm. It is free and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view to the public until April 16th, by appointment only.
Hidden Harmony features mixed media paintings that investigate perceived reality through abstraction, the battle between control and release, and obscuring personal revelations. Lady Henze's approach is rooted in reality vs personal perspective; her new body of work is an interpretation of urbanscapes that relinquish control back to the environment. This concept is then mimicked in her paint smear technique where the lack of restraint obfuscates the original image. Henze states about her transition into his style of painting, “The hard-edge work is a low-resolution view of the same walking city and the new work is a hyper focus on the high-frequency details of that same city. Where the two meet to the observer, is in my sense of color and placement.”
Joshua Rampage is a collector of real secrets and in his paintings, he obscures these private affairs under layers of paint. As a color-blind artist, Rampage's process is geared towards organic compositions juxtaposed with geometric foundations. Even with his unique perspective, his color usage forms balanced work that folds in his affinity to art history, especially Allover paintings popularized in the mid 20th century. Rampage submits to the power of chance, allowing each layer to build out the composition in between the text and arriving at the final stage through improvisation.
ARTIST BIOS
Lady Henze is a fine artist and muralist based in Oakland, California. Grounded in color theory, her practice explores themes of nostalgia, home, and community, while inviting viewers to expand their understanding of beauty. Her work draws inspiration from city life and its visual language: graffiti, neon signage, tile work, pop culture, music, and the sensory excess of the everyday. In recent series, Henze turns toward a speculative vision of the city, searching for the moments where time has begun to erode, and nature reasserts itself. Through images of decay, layered surfaces, and ecological reclamation, she considers time as a visible force and questions the boundaries between control, permanence, and coexistence.
Underlying all of her work is a deeply personal story of recovery. Painting is an act of gratitude, a response to being given a second chance at life. Through color, texture, and layers, Henze's work seeks not only the transformation of space but also the affirmation that change, healing, and hope remain possible. Her mural work can be found throughout the Bay, the Midwest and Colorado. Recent exhibitions and collaborations include a solo at Strike/Slip gallery, inclusion in the deYoung Museum Triennial, a mural at Fog Fair, and the key art for the 2025 National Women's Soccer Championship game at PayPal Park.
Joshua Rampage is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Born in 1981 in Chicago, IL, he received his B.A. in Fine Art from the University of Indiana, Bloomington in 2004. After moving to San Francisco in 2005, he split his creative pursuits between painting and playing in Maus Haus, a band he co-founded and toured with until 2011. In 2012 he moved to Australia to focus primarily on visual work. After returning to San Francisco in 2014, he has exhibited with Legion, Adobe Books, RVCA, Guerrero, Soft Times, Moth Belly, 111, and Incline Galleries, with solo and group exhibitions. Recently, his work has been shown at Gallery 16 and Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco. His work is included in both public and private corporate collections and numerous private residential collections. He has held Artist residencies in Sydney, Australia and New York City. Rampage's work is both formally and conceptually forward, drawing from a broad network of references including conversational intimacy, prose, romance, design and music, with a focus on text and language as subject matter.
ARTIST STATEMENTS
Lady Henze
This body of work references photographs that were taken in Oakland, San Francisco, and London, cities shaped by cycles of reinvention, erasure, and resistance. I am drawn to overlooked surfaces: peeling paint, layered graffiti, crumbling walls, and the quiet persistence of plants pressing back against the built world. These aren't failures of upkeep; they are records of time, secrets, and presence. I am always searching for the moments where nature re-enters the frame: rusted surfaces, plant tendrils poking between cracks, vines wrapping around posts. This reclamation raises a central question: is harmony found not through control, but through surrender? Rather than imposing order, what if we allowed spaces to evolve collaboratively, shaped by both human intention and
natural process?
These paintings are less about ruin than about possibility. They imagine a future where decay is not failure, graffiti is not nuisance, and nature is not an afterthought, but an equal collaborator in our living archive.
Joshua Rampage
"To the degree that art has any utility at all, it functions best as a challenge." Rampage considers his painting process of layering and re-working forms akin to Roger Caillois' Play Theory - "Alea" (Chance) to where games are based on luck, and the player surrenders control to fate. Finding meaning and worthy expression in the ancient and traditional craft of painting - where dirt is suspended in a binder on a surface, Rampage believes there is something deeply human, yet otherworldly and cosmic about the continued practice of painting. The physical landscape and light of Northern California, specifically San Francisco, continues to inspire and challenge his facture, palette and subject matter.
"One precise responsibility of being an artist is to communicate with as many people on this planet as I possibly can. To communicate visually what I cannot with only words. Humor is important to me. Same goes for responsibility. I think there is a responsibility in creating an object that is manifested to catch a viewer's eye and in a way, ask them to pause, or ask them to dance. This is a challenge and lovely pursuit that I will spend forever doing."
Hidden Harmony features mixed media paintings that investigate perceived reality through abstraction, the battle between control and release, and obscuring personal revelations. Lady Henze's approach is rooted in reality vs personal perspective; her new body of work is an interpretation of urbanscapes that relinquish control back to the environment. This concept is then mimicked in her paint smear technique where the lack of restraint obfuscates the original image. Henze states about her transition into his style of painting, “The hard-edge work is a low-resolution view of the same walking city and the new work is a hyper focus on the high-frequency details of that same city. Where the two meet to the observer, is in my sense of color and placement.”
Joshua Rampage is a collector of real secrets and in his paintings, he obscures these private affairs under layers of paint. As a color-blind artist, Rampage's process is geared towards organic compositions juxtaposed with geometric foundations. Even with his unique perspective, his color usage forms balanced work that folds in his affinity to art history, especially Allover paintings popularized in the mid 20th century. Rampage submits to the power of chance, allowing each layer to build out the composition in between the text and arriving at the final stage through improvisation.
ARTIST BIOS
Lady Henze is a fine artist and muralist based in Oakland, California. Grounded in color theory, her practice explores themes of nostalgia, home, and community, while inviting viewers to expand their understanding of beauty. Her work draws inspiration from city life and its visual language: graffiti, neon signage, tile work, pop culture, music, and the sensory excess of the everyday. In recent series, Henze turns toward a speculative vision of the city, searching for the moments where time has begun to erode, and nature reasserts itself. Through images of decay, layered surfaces, and ecological reclamation, she considers time as a visible force and questions the boundaries between control, permanence, and coexistence.
Underlying all of her work is a deeply personal story of recovery. Painting is an act of gratitude, a response to being given a second chance at life. Through color, texture, and layers, Henze's work seeks not only the transformation of space but also the affirmation that change, healing, and hope remain possible. Her mural work can be found throughout the Bay, the Midwest and Colorado. Recent exhibitions and collaborations include a solo at Strike/Slip gallery, inclusion in the deYoung Museum Triennial, a mural at Fog Fair, and the key art for the 2025 National Women's Soccer Championship game at PayPal Park.
Joshua Rampage is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Born in 1981 in Chicago, IL, he received his B.A. in Fine Art from the University of Indiana, Bloomington in 2004. After moving to San Francisco in 2005, he split his creative pursuits between painting and playing in Maus Haus, a band he co-founded and toured with until 2011. In 2012 he moved to Australia to focus primarily on visual work. After returning to San Francisco in 2014, he has exhibited with Legion, Adobe Books, RVCA, Guerrero, Soft Times, Moth Belly, 111, and Incline Galleries, with solo and group exhibitions. Recently, his work has been shown at Gallery 16 and Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco. His work is included in both public and private corporate collections and numerous private residential collections. He has held Artist residencies in Sydney, Australia and New York City. Rampage's work is both formally and conceptually forward, drawing from a broad network of references including conversational intimacy, prose, romance, design and music, with a focus on text and language as subject matter.
ARTIST STATEMENTS
Lady Henze
This body of work references photographs that were taken in Oakland, San Francisco, and London, cities shaped by cycles of reinvention, erasure, and resistance. I am drawn to overlooked surfaces: peeling paint, layered graffiti, crumbling walls, and the quiet persistence of plants pressing back against the built world. These aren't failures of upkeep; they are records of time, secrets, and presence. I am always searching for the moments where nature re-enters the frame: rusted surfaces, plant tendrils poking between cracks, vines wrapping around posts. This reclamation raises a central question: is harmony found not through control, but through surrender? Rather than imposing order, what if we allowed spaces to evolve collaboratively, shaped by both human intention and
natural process?
These paintings are less about ruin than about possibility. They imagine a future where decay is not failure, graffiti is not nuisance, and nature is not an afterthought, but an equal collaborator in our living archive.
Joshua Rampage
"To the degree that art has any utility at all, it functions best as a challenge." Rampage considers his painting process of layering and re-working forms akin to Roger Caillois' Play Theory - "Alea" (Chance) to where games are based on luck, and the player surrenders control to fate. Finding meaning and worthy expression in the ancient and traditional craft of painting - where dirt is suspended in a binder on a surface, Rampage believes there is something deeply human, yet otherworldly and cosmic about the continued practice of painting. The physical landscape and light of Northern California, specifically San Francisco, continues to inspire and challenge his facture, palette and subject matter.
"One precise responsibility of being an artist is to communicate with as many people on this planet as I possibly can. To communicate visually what I cannot with only words. Humor is important to me. Same goes for responsibility. I think there is a responsibility in creating an object that is manifested to catch a viewer's eye and in a way, ask them to pause, or ask them to dance. This is a challenge and lovely pursuit that I will spend forever doing."