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AN AMERICAN GALLERY
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Celebrating 27 Years of 19th, 20th and 21st Century American Art |
 
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Mary Heebner is an abstract pa |
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| BIOGRAPHY Mary Heebner has been painting for most of her life. She was born in Los Angeles, California April 19, 1951. Heebner attended Providence High School and the College of Creative Studies at University of California at Santa Barbara, and received her MFA from UCSB in 1977. She began exhibiting her collages and works on paper in galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including group and individual shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, Seattle, Santiago Chile and Paris. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Art, UCLA Special Collections, the JP Getty Collection, University of Chicago, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Skilled at the art of papermaking, Heebner incorporates papers and powdered pigments into her mixed media pieces, combining her interpretation of landforms and maps, or antiquities with the human form to create abstract compositions. Fascinated by the form and creative possibilities of the book as a means to interpret the many places she has traveled, Heebner began making fine art books including Island: Journal from Iceland and Scratching the Surface: A visit to Lascaux, Western Trilogy, and On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea by Pablo Neruda. These handmade, limited editions with her writing and original images are published under her imprint simplemente maria press. Heebner and her husband, photographer Macduff Everton, collaborate on assignments that have taken them to as far as Iceland and India and as near as the California coastline and their Santa Barbara home. Heebner has written travel articles for several magazines including Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Life and National Geographic Traveler. Western Horizon (Abrams, 2000) with Macduff Everton’s photographs was their first book together. In 2004, a version of Heebner’s On the Blue Shore of Silence was published by Harper Collins/Rayo as a full color, fully bilingual hardcover book in commemoration of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s 100th birthday. Heebner is currently working on paintings inspired from images seen above ground level, from the starkly beautiful landscape of the Chilean Altiplano, and from imaginary maps of probable and improbable continents. |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected list): 2003 A Sense of Place; College of Creative Studies Gallery, University of California at Santa Barbara 2002 Ancient Presences; University of California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo, CA 2001 Mary Heebner, Una Artista Norteamericana; US Embassy in Chile, Ambassador’s Residence, Santiago and book exhibition at the Museo Pablo Neruda, Isla Negra, Chile 2000 Collages and Artists' Books by Mary Heebner; Joshua Heller Rare Books, Washington D.C. 2000 Island; State Department sponsored exhibit and lecture, Ambassador's Residence Reykjavik, Iceland 2000 Stargazers and Wide and Luteous Light:A Reverie; Hiromi International, Santa Monica, CA 2000 Bridging Time; Exhibition and lecture Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA 1998 Lascaux and Other Journeys; Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA 1997 Pangaea: The Iceland Paintings and Island Journal from Iceland; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA 1997 Indigo Sketches and Old Marks, New Marks; Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1996 Old Marks, New Marks; Joseph Campbell/Marija Gimbutas Archives, Santa Barbara, CA 1994 Shapeshifter; Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1993 Wellspring and A Chorus of Murmurs,; Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 1993 Dialogues,; Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1993 Selections from 1987-1993; Karpeles Manscript Museum, Santa Barbara, CA 1991 Dark Venus,; Kay Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1991 First Moon Passage,; Sidestreet Gallery, Los Olivos, CA 1990 Down the First Passage: Pompeii; Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1990 Outer Hebrides Paintings,; Frameworks Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 1989 Cenote; Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1989 Cenote,; Installation, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA 1988 Turn of the Century: Paintings and Collages; Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1987 Recent Work: Figurative Collages; Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1987 Botany: Charcoal Drawings on Paper; College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1986 Recent Work,; Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1986 Leda; Hodges-Banks Gallery, Seattle, WA 1985 Transitions: Collage on Canvas and Paper,; Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984 Shaped Pieces; Hodges-Banks Gallery, Seattle, WA 1984 Presenting Mary Heebner; Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, MI 1983 Inside Sounds; Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1983 Dream Shirt: For Therman McCormick; Carolyn Watson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 1981 Gaviota; Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1980 Alumni Exhibition; College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1979 Collages by Mary Heebner; Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, OR 1979 New Collages; Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 1979 Introducing Mary Heebner; Margaret Walker Associates, San Francisco, Atherton, CA 1979 Heebner Collages and Chihuly Glass; Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1978 Introductions; The Bradley Gallery, Montecito, CA 1977 MFA Exhibition: University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 1973 BFA Exhibition: College of Creative Studies, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA |
