Heyd Fontenot’s Color! Pattern! Propaganda! is on display at Conduit Gallery through Jan. 1 Heyd Fontenot was compelled to respond via art to the rise in right-wing extremism JENNY BLOCK | Contributing WriterJennyEBlock@icloud.com All you really need to know about Heyd Fontenot is that he is a brilliant artist who is not afraid to upset people.
His work is witty and honest. It is inviting and impossible to look away from. It is also bewilderingly beautiful. It can be combative the way the truth sometimes must be.
Fontenot is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. He’s worked in advertising, theater, television, film and digital media.