Sally Heller

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Sally Heller
Born
Sally Heller

1956 (age 69–70)
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin, Virginia Commonwealth University
Known forpainting, collage, installation
Website sallyheller.com

Sally Heller born (1956) in New Orleans, LA. She is known for the use of everyday materials to make large installations that are often site-specific. [1]

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Early life and education

Art practice and career

Having resided since 1980 in New Orleans and New York City, highlights of Heller's many solo exhibitions have taken place in prominent regional centers of art around the USA as well as in New York City.

A 1980 exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans was the first public exposure of her work. "Louisiana Major Works Show," curated by Linda L. Cathcart, was a major exhibition featuring 40 Louisiana artists, held at the Barnwell Garden & Art Center in Shreveport. The exhibition was notable for being a significant traveling exhibition of regional work.

In 1993 she created a permanent relief in the NYC subway system Trains of Thought. [2]

Presented in 2004 Hanging by a Thread was as an ambitious mid career exhibition featuring Heller's work of the previous five years. Through fluid sculpture, Heller challenges perceptions of feminist, continuity, and mass- production culture. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans [3]

In 2005 Calamitrees, Heller's exhibition at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts was a large installation that referred to hurricane Katrina [4]

In Heller's 2005 Material Minutiae, installation, the creation of recognizable yet improbable landscapes constructed from cultural detritus, ubiquitous to Heller’s artistic practice, assembles a litany of mundane materials and cultural castoffs into a recognizable yet improbable environment. Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana [5]

Up/Rooted, 2007, an installation and photographs at Gallery Bienvenu in New Orleans, is the artist’s statement about the delicate balance between consumerism and a vulnerable environment. [6]

2008–2025 Scraphouse, New Orleans: installation of public sculpture funded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New Orleans [7]

Lewdicrous, in 2012 was a collaborative feminist installation at The Front Gallery in New Orleans [8]

In Orange Alert, a 2016 exhibition at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia Heller used construction materials to create an installation [9]

In 2016 Second Story, Heller created a second metal site-specific sculpture in a private park in St. Rose, LA similar to Scraphouse and again referencing hurricane Katrina. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Guests". Art Index TV. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  2. ↑ Artwork:_Trains_of_Thought_(Andrea_Gardner_and_Sally_Heller) "Artwork: Trains of Thought (Andrea Gardner and Sally Heller)". www.nycsubway.org. Retrieved 2018-03-31.{{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  3. ↑ Delk, Laurie (October 2004). "Sally Heller" (PDF). Sculpture: 71. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2018 – via sallyheller.com.
  4. ↑ https://www.louisianalife.com/sally-heller/
  5. ↑ Alexander, Neil (2004). "Sally Heller: Material Minutiae" (PDF). DePauw University.
  6. ↑ "Sally Heller". 64parishes.org.
  7. ↑ Lilly, Wei (February 1, 2009). "New Orleans Report: Deliverance The Biennial" (PDF). Art in America: 43–49.
  8. ↑ "July 14- August 5, 2012". The Front. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  9. ↑ Sellers, Meredith (March 31, 2016). "Under Construction: Sally Heller at the Galleries at Moore". Pelican Bomb. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  10. ↑ "'Second Story' is new chapter in Katrina resilience". Via Nola Vie.org. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
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