Heather Allen Hietala

Conversing - a narrative of journey and change, mixed media, paper and vessel

2014

A canoe shaped ceramic vessel glazed in light brown and pierced by a darning needle is perched on a floating shelf below a mixed media work on paper. The image repeats the canoe shap...

Simply gorgeous! Two canoe-shaped vessels appear to traverse the horizontal canvas in this recent series of enigmatic works by Heather Allen Hietala. The na...

Cindy Sherman The Nine Lives of Cindy, 2019 Printed Bone Porcelain 12 1/2 in diameter Limited Edition of 100 Plate signed verso and also accompanied by plate signed documentation card/official Certificate of Authenticity In original box Produced exclusively for the National Portrait Gallery in the United Kingdom on the occasion of the 2019 Cindy Sherman exhibition which also traveled to the Vancouver Art Gallery. Acquired directly from the National Portrait Gallery before it sold out. Cindy Sherman Biography: Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York NY. Her ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media for over four decades. Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with the Pictures Generation group alongside artists such as Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler, Sherman studied art at Buffalo State College in 1972 where she turned her attention to photography. In 1977, shortly after moving to New York, Sherman began her critically acclaimed Untitled Film Stills. A suite of 69 black and white portraits, Untitled Film Stills sees Sherman impersonate a myriad of stereotypical female characters and caricatures inspired by Hollywood pictures, film noir, and B movies. Using a range of costumes, props and backdrops to manipulate her own appearance and to create photographs resembling promotional film images, the series explores the tension between artifice and identity in consumer culture which has preoccupied the artist’s practice ever since. Sherman continued to channel and reconstruct familiar personas known to the collective psyche, often in unsettling ways. In 1981, the artist created her Centerfolds, a series of photographic double spreads inspired by men’s erotic magazines...

Jean Michel Basquiat portrait created with mosaics using hand cut tiles. Mixed media, 36 x 25.5, framed to 38 x 27.5. Dean Moore is a New York City based emerging artist. Being self-taught, Dean has experimented with various mediums and finds deconstruction to be a consistent theme in his work. Currently focusing on mosaics, Moore meticulously hand cuts ceramic tile, porcelain tile and glass into thousands of fragments—shaping and filing each piece precisely before thoughtfully positioning them together to create impactful mosaics. In the past, he used cereal boxes...