WESTEIGH & JEFF HEYMAN

Westeigh is a Bay Area artist working across photography and works on paper. Her practice is rooted in attention and an interest in pattern, repetition, and the small visual clues that accumulate into larger questions of memory, place, the body, belonging, and human experience. Informed by a background in scientific and human systems, she is interested in what survives, what disappears, and what can still be understood through fragments and partial evidence.
Her work was selected for the de Young Open 2023, has been shown in group exhibitions throughout the Bay Area, and is held in private collections. She has served on the board of the Achenbach Graphic Arts Council at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Jeff Heyman is a San Francisco native and photographer working in film and digital formats. His photographic education began with Ralph Rappaport, with whom he studied the Zone System and advanced darkroom techniques during trips to Yosemite, Carmel, and Point Lobos. Rappaport later introduced him to photographer Ruth Bernhard, who invited Jeff to her home for a private critique.
Jeff earned a BA in Fine Art Photography from San Francisco State University, where he studied with Don Worth, Jack Welpott, Catherine Wagner, and Melanie Walker.
His path has also included service with the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations in Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia, Angola, and Rwanda, as well as teaching photography and leading workshops throughout the Bay Area.
His work has been published and exhibited widely, is held in private collections, and was selected for the de Young Open 2023.