{"id":106070,"date":"2018-06-14T14:14:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T14:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/once-blind-artist-heather-chontos-showcases-travel-inspired-pieces-in-nyc\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:46:17","slug":"once-blind-artist-heather-chontos-showcases-travel-inspired-pieces-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/once-blind-artist-heather-chontos-showcases-travel-inspired-pieces-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Once-Blind Artist Heather Chontos Showcases Travel-Inspired Pieces in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/ID-may-2018-blips-heather-chontos-weightless-new-york-02-0518.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/ID-may-2018-blips-heather-chontos-weightless-new-york-02-0518.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\"><\/noscript><figcaption>Photography courtesy of Voltz Clarke Contemporary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">She was once blind, but when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherchontos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Chontos<\/a> recovered her sight, the then 15-year-old had gained a different perspective on life and art. Today, that vision is evident in her evocative abstract paintings in <span class=\"s1\">\u201cWeightless,\u201d<\/span> at <a href=\"https:\/\/voltzclarke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voltz Clarke Contemporary<\/a> gallery in New York until July 5. The 11 works in a variety of media are influenced by recent voyages. The blue tile she saw in Porto, Portugal, for instance, inspired the multicolor <em>Certain Distance<\/em>, an oil and acrylic on linen.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/ID-may-2018-blips-heather-chontos-weightless-new-york-01-0518.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/ID-may-2018-blips-heather-chontos-weightless-new-york-01-0518.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\"><\/noscript><figcaption>Photography courtesy of Voltz Clarke Contemporary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/ID-may-2018-blips-heather-chontos-weightless-new-york-03-0518.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/ID-may-2018-blips-heather-chontos-weightless-new-york-03-0518.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\"><\/noscript><figcaption>Photography courtesy of Voltz Clarke Contemporary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/ID-may-2018-blips-heather-chontos-weightless-new-york-04-0518.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/ID-may-2018-blips-heather-chontos-weightless-new-york-04-0518.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\"><\/noscript><figcaption>Photography courtesy of Voltz Clarke Contemporary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"articles\/14980-interior-design-may-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; See more from the May 2018 issue of<span>&nbsp;<\/span><em>Interior Design<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>When<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherchontos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Chontos<\/a><span><span>&nbsp;<\/span>recovered her sight, the then 15-year-old had gained a different perspective on life and art. Today, that vision is evident in her evocative abstract paintings in<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">&ldquo;Weightless,&rdquo;<\/span><span><span>&nbsp;<\/span>at<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/voltzclarke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voltz Clarke Contemporary<\/a><span><span>&nbsp;<\/span>gallery in New York until July 5.<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3470,"featured_media":82478,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_image_focal_point":[],"legacy_django_id":15007},"tags":[],"id_tax_domain":[],"id_tax_product":[],"id_tax_program":[],"id_issue":[],"id_cat_news":[],"internal_flag":[4220],"class_list":["post-106070","id_news","type-id_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Once-Blind Artist Heather Chontos Showcases Travel-Inspired Pieces in NYC - Interior Design<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When&nbsp;Heather Chontos&nbsp;recovered her sight, the then 15-year-old had gained a different perspective on life and art. 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