Essex Art Center: Beland Gallery Exhibition - Press Release

[Andre Leroux]

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From: Cathy McLaurin <cathyesse...@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:52 PM
Subject: Beland Gallery Exhibition - Press Release
To: Cathy Mclaurin <cathyesse...@yahoo.com>

 

Essex Art Center 56 Island St.,Lawrence,MA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact: Cathy McLaurin, Essex Art Center

978-685-2343

cathyesse...@yahoo.com

 

At Home: New Work by Heidi Hogden

 

Exhibition dates:  September 7 – October 19, 2012

Opening reception: Friday, September 14 , 5-7 pm with an artist talk by Heidi Hogden at 5 pm

 

The Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery at Essex Art Center is pleased to present At Home: New Work by Heidi Hogden.

 

Heidi Hogden’s large-scale graphite drawings depict scenes from her Wisconsin home, specifically animal life and the surrounding landscape.  Ultimately, an exploration of memory and longing, these meticulously executed drawings bring the viewer into the intimate world of Hogden’s home place - two deer fighting, a fawn left for the day by her mother, tucked into a nest of camouflaging grasses, a view of the sky up through prairie grass.

 

From her statement:

This body of work consists of a series of graphite drawings on paper that investigate the area around my home in the township of Franklin, Wisconsin. Each work presents a unique interpretation of the land by

using photographic source material as inspiration. Through the process of drawing, I revisit the landscape of my childhood as it was, as it is and as I imagine it to be. This pursuit has led me to not only explore my home, but the home of other inhabitants. In this work I interweave notions of familiarity

and distance with intimacy and voyeurism to reconstruct memories.

 

 

Heidi Hogden studied painting and drawing at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (BFA, 2008) and studio art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in affiliation with Tufts University (MFA, 2012). She received the President’s Award in the Painting Area Show at the Museum School (’12), studied in Italy with a Montague International Travel Grant (’11) and was featured in The Boston Globe’s “6 Art School Grads to Watch” article (’12). Recent exhibitions include “New Talent” at Alpha Gallery (’12), “42.88°N, -88.01°W”, MFA Thesis Exhibition, at the Aidekman Arts Center (’12), “Topographies of Space: Between Somewhere and Nowhere” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (’12), “Proof of Purchase” at Sampson Gallery (’11 and ’12), and “Boston Young Contemporaries” at 808 Gallery (’10) among others. In addition to instructing art workshops, Hogden is currently a Post Graduate Teaching Fellow at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

 

 

For additional information about this exhibition or to receive high resolution digital images for publication, please contact Cathy McLaurin cathyessex...@yahoo.com  or  at 978-685-2343.

 

The Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery is located on the first floor of Essex Art Center at 56 Island Street, Lawrence, MA.

Gallery hours:  M-F  10-6

Call for additional evening hours 

Closed October 8

 

www.essexartcenter.com

Essex Art Center

56 Island St.

Lawrence, MA  01840

978-685-2343

 

Special Projects & Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery Director
Essex Art Center
56 Island St.
Lawrence, MA 01840
978-685-2343
www.essexartcenter.com

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