About the Artist
Heather Abshire is a New York based artists who uses her work to better understand and share her mental health journey. She creates art to move past her mental incapacities and regain control.
Most of Heather’s pieces mimic a dream-like state with endless possibilities of where and when. She distorts her references to a point where the forms are identifiable but not specific. By keeping her main concern on the basic compositional structure she’s able to play with light and perception to construct a new reality. Either through collage or painting, the work challenges the viewer's perception of space.
Heather’s goal is to extract and combined elements of this chaotic world to control the environment she presents to her audience.
Group Exhibitions:
2020 - Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition - "Wide Open II" - Brooklyn, NY
2020 - Plaxell Gallery - "Online Spring Exhibition" - Online
2020 - Site:Brooklyn - "Gesture and Motion" - Brooklyn, NY
2019 - Citi Community Cases - Court Square - Long Island City, NY
2019 - Plaxall Gallery - "Creative Mosaic" - Long Island City, NY
2019 - Site:Brooklyn - "The Freedom of Abstraction" - Brooklyn, NY
2019 - Atlantic Gallery - "LIC @ Atlantic" - New York, NY
2019 - Upstream Gallery - "Small Works Exhibition" - Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
2018 - Plaxall Gallery - "Yours and Always Only Yours" - Long Island City, NY
2017 - Ravel Hotel - "Holiday Market" - Long Island City, NY
2017 - Astoria Wine and Spirits (solo) - "Capacity Building" - Astoria, NY
2017 - Makers Movement - "The Handmade Pop-Up" - Online
2014 - Mahady Gallery - "BFA Exhibition" - Marywood University, Scranton PA
2014 - Wendell and Company - "Advance Painters II" - Scranton, PA
2013 - Connells Loft Gallery - "Decoding Spaces" - Scranton, PA
2011 - Connells Loft Gallery - "Mind the Gap" - Scranton, PA
Curatorial Projects:
2017-2019- MediaMath's Art Collection
Education:
2014- Marywood University - BFA
2014 - Marywood University - Minor in Art History
2013 - European Independent Study - Rome, Italy
2011 - European Independent Study - London, England
Representation:
2018 - Present: Long Island City Artists
