About
Heather Abshire is a New York-born painter currently based in Connecticut whose work explores the complexities of human nature and the subtle threads of shared experience. Working primarily in oil paint, Abshire navigates the space between figuration and abstraction to examine themes of mental health, femininity, and emotional intimacy. She obtained her BFA along with a dual minor in painting and art history from Marywood University in 2014. From 2017 through 2019, Heather undertook the role of co-curator for a private corporate art collection. Abshire’s work has been exhibited nationally, including features with Saatchi’s The Other Art Fair, The Painting Center and Visionary Projects. Most recently, she completed an artist residency and presented her debut solo exhibition with Carrie Able Gallery.
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Statement
Centered on human connection, each painting traces the subtle threads of feeling and memory that exist just beneath the surface. Through colorful figures, dreamlike forms and condensed space, I draw from personal experience to examine themes of mental health, femininity and human nature. The figures are not portraits but embodiments of lived tension, suspended in moments that hold intimacy and discomfort in equal measure.
Each work becomes a site of containment; an attempt to give form to what feels unseen and unmanageable. The narratives remain deeply personal yet broadly resonant, reshaping emotion into structure and turning vulnerability into a shared visual language.
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 - Carrie Able Gallery - Escape Route - Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibitions:
2024 - Visionary Projects - Cool Off - New York, NY
2023 - BAU Gallery - Reprise - Beacon, NY
2023 - The Factory LIC Gallery - ActionReaction - Long Island City, NY
2023 - The Painting Center - The Painting Center Benefit 2022-2023 - Artsy
2022 - Carrie Able Gallery - Here Resides Fantasy - Brooklyn, NY
2022 - Culture Lab LIC - Affordable Art Fair - Long Island City, NY
2021 - Atlantic Gallery - LIC Atlantic Fall Showcase - New York, NY
2021- Saatchi Art -The Other Art Fair Brooklyn - Brooklyn, NY
2021 - LIC-A Artists 2021 Showcase - Online
2020 - Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition - "Wide Open II" - Brooklyn, NY
2020 - Plaxell Gallery - "Spring Exhibition" - Long Island City, NY
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 - 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 Art - Scranton, PA
Residencies:
Summer 2022 - Carrie Able Gallery Artist in Residence - Brooklyn, NY
Curatorial Projects:
2017-2019- MediaMath's Private Global 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
