MARY HEEBNER
914 Santa Barbara Street
Santa Barbara, California 93101
T. 805.962.2497 F. 805.966.3388
email: mheebner@impulse.net
born: April 19, l951
EDUCATION
Sponsor: William Dole
1973 B.A., College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Instructors: Masami Kanemitsu, Paul Wonner, Gerard Haggerty
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000 "Bridging Time" exhibition and lecture Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, California - March 2000
1998 "Lascaux and Other Journeys" Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California
1997 "Pangaea: The Iceland Paintings and Iseland Journal from Iceland; Santa Barbara Contemporary ArtsForum, Santa Barbara California
"Indigo Sketches" Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1996 "Old Marks, New Marks" selected work, Joseph Campbell/Marija Gimbutas Archives, Santa Barbara, Ca
1994 "Shapeshifter" Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1993 "Wellspring," Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
"Dialogues," Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington
"1987-1993 Selected work" Karpeles Manscript Museum, Santa Barbara, California
1991 "Dark Venus," Kay Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, California
"First Moon Passage," Sidestreet Gallery, Los Olivos, California
1990 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington
"Outer Hebrides," Frameworks Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
1989 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington
"Cenote," Installation, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
1988 "Paintings and Collages," Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California
1987 "Recent Work: Figurative Collages," Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington
"Botany: Charcoal Drawings on Paper," College of Creative Studies, University of California,
Santa Barbara, California
1986 "Recent Work," Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California
Hodges-Banks Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1985 "Transitions: Collage on Canvas and Paper," Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California
1984 Hodges-Banks Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Brentwood Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1983 Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California
Carolyn Watson, Santa Barbara, California
1981 Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California
1980 College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1979 Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, Oregon
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, California
Margaret Walker Associates, San Francisco, California
Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California
1978 The Bradley Gallery, Montecito, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1997 Pyramid Atlantic Book Fair, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Joshua Heller Rare Books, Inc, Washington, DC
1997 "Artists on the Road: Travel as Source of Inspiration""National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1997 Japan II exhibition of work on paper by Women Beyond Borders", Chiba, Japan
1997 Fourteenth Anniversary Exhibition, Linda Hodges, Seattle, Washington
1996-98 Women/Beyond Borders selected venues include: Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, National Museum of Kenya, Extra Moenia, Todi, Italy, ICC Contemporary Gallery, Jerusalem, Milton Keynes Gallery, England, Styrian Autumn Festival, Graz, Austria, University of Sydney, Australia, Tomei Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Women/Beyond Borders companion exhibition with "Pandora’s Box: Women in Classical Greece" Antiken Museum Sammling Ludwig, Basel, Switzerland
1996 "Rocks, Paper, Stone" Safeco Group, Newport Beach California
Selected Gallery Artists, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Selected Work from Global Focus Exhibition in Beijing, China, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
1995 Scissors, Paper, Stone: Nine Working Women Museum Art Center, Santa Maria, Ca.
Santa Barbara Artists: Heebner, Reese, Tanner, Ro Snell Gallery , S.B.,California
1995-2000 Women Beyond Borders Traveling exhibition of 200 women artists from 20+ countries
1995 Global Focus: United Nations Conference on Women, Beijing, China
1994 Group Show of gallery artists Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara, Califonia
Group Show of gallery artists Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1993 "Gallery Artists" Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
"Selections from the Charles Craig Collection" Conejo Valley Museum of Art, Thousand Oaks, Ca.
"Un Ange Passe" Westmont College, Santa Barbara. California
1992 Linda Hodges Gallery, Group Show, Seattle, Washington
Anne Reed Gallery, "A Tribute to Small" Gallery Artists Sun Valley, Idaho
Ro Snell Gallery, Gallery Artists Group Show, Santa Barbara, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Recollections: A Tribute to William Dole", curated by Lisa Phaneuf , Santa Barbara
Museum of Art for the De La Guerra Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
1991 "Santa Barbara Artists", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1990 "Monoprints By California Artists at Black Mesa Workshop," Lone Pine Gallery,
Irvine, California
"Selections," Markel/Sears, New York City, New York
"Santa Barbara Arts Invitational," curated by Nancy Doll Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Santa Barbara, California
1988 "Imagénes" Casa de Cultura, Oaxaca, Oaxaca Mexico
1988-86 "Collage: West Coast," University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
(traveling exhibition) curated by Michael Whitenack
1987 "Garden of Earthly Delights" Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
1986 "Works on Paper," Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Concha, Heebner, Goodman: New Paintings," Allrich Gallery, San Francisco,
California
1985 "Artwatch '85," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
"Artwatch '85," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
"Self-Portraits: 60 California Artists," Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
"Five Artists," Hodges-Banks Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1984 "Olympic Arts Festival," Los Angeles County Museum of Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Olympic Arts Festival," University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1983 "Small Works," Hodges-Banks Gallery, Seattle, Washington
"On, Of, and About Paper," U.S.A. Today Exhibition, Washington, D.C.
1981 "Introductions: Five Artists," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
"National Works on Paper," Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
Fountain Gallery of Art, Portland, Oregon
1980 "Mary Heebner and Harry Reese," Santa Barbara Museum of Art: The Annex, Santa Barbara, California
Transamerica Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts Inc., New York, New York
1979 "Santa Barbara Artists Invitational," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1978 College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara Drawings," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1977 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
TEACHING, ADVISORY, & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2000 "Bridging Time" lecture for International Conference on Women, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, Ca.
1999 Art Fund Mentor Program: instruction to gifted high school students, Santa Barbara, California
l988-90, 1998 Grants Review Juror, Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, Santa Barbara, Ca.
l997-99 Arts Advisory Committee, Santa Barbara, California
1996 Art Museum Council LACMA, studio lecture: "Travel, writing and painting, a synthesis"
1988-97 Visual Arts in Public Places Committee member , Santa Barbara, California Chair, l992-93
1993-95 Steering Committee; Friends of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Ca.
1994 Flux Team: Fluxus Exhibit Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Ca.
l986-93 Arts Advisory Committee, Santa Barbara, California
1988-89 Art Affiliates, board member, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1990-95 Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California
Studio Lectures for Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Forum, Stanford
University Museum of Art Collectors Forum, San Jose
Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum
1992 "William Dole" Lecture series, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1991 "Artists Speak Out" Lecture, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
"What is Contemporary Art, or, My Five Year Old Can Do This", Lecture
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
1989-90 Art Instructor, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California
Lecturer, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Ca.
1985 Symposium Member, "Open Forum: Five Artists" Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Santa Barbara, California
Lecturer, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1984-5 Art Instructor, Studio Art Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, California
l978-84 Art Instructor, Children's Creative Project, Santa Barbara County Schools, Santa Barbara, California
l983 Art Instructor, Santa Barbara, Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
l979-81 Substitute Lecturer, Studio Art Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, California
1980 Lecturer, College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, California
1975-77 Teaching Assistant to William Dole, Studio Art Department, University of California,
at Santa Barbara, California
1971 Instructor in Art, English and Geography, Baleares Institute of Fine Arts, Mallorca Spain
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS AND AWARDS
1996 Los Angeles County Museum of Art "8 Artists Design Plates", Museum Council, Los Angeles, Calif.
1994 Finalist, Waterfront Park Project park design competition, Santa Barbara, California
l993 Finalist,Santa Maria County Municipal Court design competition, Santa Maria, Ca.
1991-93 Santa Barbara County Art Commission Award to redesign the Santa Barbara
County Municipal Courthouse Courtyard including on site mural, tile work, planter and furniture design
1992 "The Plate Project" Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
1984-81 California Arts Council, Artist-in-Schools Grant, Goleta, California
1978 Travel Study Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1972 President's Undergraduate Fellowship Award, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1970-72 Regents Scholar Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, Ca
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
National Archive and Library of Iceland
Fiske Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Archive of the Ministry of Culture, Bordeaux, France
University of California Art Museum and UCSB Special Collections Library, Santa Barbara, California
Louisiana State University Art Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
The Gap Collection, San Francisco, California
A.T. & T., New York, New York
USA Today, Washington, D.C.
IBM, New York, New York
The Crocker Bank Collection, San Francisco, California
U.S. Leasing Corporation, San Francisco, California
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, California
Emerata Hess Collection., New York, New York
VISA Corporation, Singapore
United States Embassies; Reykjavik, Iceland, Asmara, Eritrrea and Yemen
Foremost-McKesson, San Francisco, California
Levi-Strauss, San Francisco, California
Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, California
Chemical Bank Collection, New York
Alfred Checchi & Associates, Los Angeles, California
Becton Dickerson, New Jersey
Citicorp Venture Capital, Palo Alto, California
Ranier Bank, Seattle, Washington
Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California
Sanwa Bank Collection, San Francisco, California
Pacific Telecommunications, New York, New York
ARTIST BOOKS:
"On the Blue Shore of Silence" edition. 50; prints, paintings together with the poetry of Pablo Neruda; bi-lingual, translation by Alastair Reid; simplemente maria press, Santa Barbara, California - work in progress
"Westering: The Prairie, The Ocean, The Desert" trilogy edition 20; watercolors, letterpress text about the American West; simplemente maria press, Santa Barbara - work in progress
"The Western Horizon" photographs by Macduff Everton, drawings and commentary by Mary Heebner with introduction by Edmund Morris Abrams 2000
"Scratching the Surface: A visit to Lascaux and Rouffignac" edition 10; pigment paintings and text on handmade paper, letterpress; simplemente maria press, Santa Barbara, Ca. 1998 "Island: Journal from Iceland" edition 60; giclée prints and text, letterpress on handmade paper; simplemente maria press, Santa Barbara, California 1997
" A Chorus of Murmurs: Prayer Flags of Sikkim" unique book of watercolors and text; simplemente maria press, 1997 - editioned version planned for 2001
"Old Marks, New Marks" edition 40, handmade paper collage with chapbook, introductory essay, The Earth-Centered Art of Mary Heebner/ Campbell/Gimbutas Archives 1996
"The Outer Hebrides" unique book of acrylic paintings with poetry of Robinson Jeffers 1990
MEDIA and PUBLICATIONS:
"Amare, Amator, Amateur: For Love of Paper" Handpapermaking Vol 14 No. 1 Summer 1999 illus.
"Andiamo Ragazzi: A Walk through the Tuscan Hills" Australian Way Magazine May 1999
"Pura Vida: Costa Rica" Condé Nast Traveller/UK June 1998
"Snapshots of Paris" San Francisco Focus Magazine Summer 1996
"Interview with T.C. Boyle" Mungo Park, Microsoft on-line magazine Fall 1996
"Romantic Getaways" San Francisco Focus Magazine May 1996
"By the Beautiful Sea: Chile’s Litoral" Travel Holiday Magazine Dec/Jan 95-96 pg58-67
"Box Network: Women/Beyond Borders" Santa Barbara Magazine Fall 1995, pg46-51
"Portfolio" Santa Barbara Magazine Spring 1995 p20-21"Mimi’s Garden" series of collages and commentary
"Paint it Black," 1988, paintings, Vestron Productions, Los Angeles, California
"Good Morning America," Interview by Ron Reagan, Santa Barbara, California, May, 1988
"Visions: Mary Heebner," Santa Barbara Public Access Television, 1987
"Mary Heebner, Artist," Ben Hunter Show, KTTV, Los Angeles, California, 1979
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pat Almonrode, "Featured Artist: Mary Heebner" PULP, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York
June-August 1999
Ament, Deloris Tarzan, "Collage adds depth, richness, to Heebner's Art," Seattle Times,
November 13, 1987, illustration
Ames, Richard, "Mary Heebner Explores New Territory," Santa Barbara News Press, July 16,
1983, illustration
Ames, Richard, "Heebner and Pitcher: Both are in Top Form," Santa Barbara News Press,
March 13, 1982
Artweek, "Mary Heebner: Buried in Blue," Volume 10, Number 44, December 29, 1979, illustration
California Artists Cookbook, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, photograph
Collage: West Coast, University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1987, catalogue
Crowder, Joan ""Three Familiar Artists, Unfamiliar Abstracts" Santa Barbara News Press April 7, 1995, illustration
Crowder, Joan, "Working Women", Santa Barbara News Press June 30, 1995 page 11-12
Crowder, Joan, " Turning inward to listen to her Muse" , Santa Barbara News Press, January 22, 1993, illustration
Crowder, Joan, " The Bold Ones: Express Yourself", Santa Barbara News Press, August 1 1991, pages 11-12,
Crowder, Joan, "Silent Treks over Luminous Landscapes" Scene Magazine Santa Barbara News Press,
May 18, 1990, page 25-6, illustration
Martha Donelan, "The Goddess: Pangaea:Mary Heebner’s Iceland series Santa Barbara Independant October 23 1997, page 33
Dunscombe, Betsy, "Mary Heebner," Arts Magazine, Volume 59, Number 9, May, 1985
Frommer, Paul, "The colors of contemplation" Metro, January 14, l993, illustration
Geer, Suvan Women/Beyond Borders, catalogue for the 1995-2000 traveling exhibition, "Pieces of Dialogue"
November 1995, illustration and poem by artist page 17; also, Todi Italy, Graz, Austria, Tokyo, Japan
Gilbar, Anne, "Living Art in Santa Barbara," Santa Barbara Magazine, 1981
Kampen, Michael "Mary Heebner: Art of Symphonic Proportions," Santa Barbara News Press,December, 1989
Kampen, Michael, "Mary Heebner seeks hidden truths in her portraits," Santa Barbara News
Press, August 31, 1985, illustration
Mendenhall, L. Pelissero, "Monotypes from Black Mesa," WESTART, December 14, 1990, pg. 4
Morch, Al, "Mary Heebner and Nancy Mee," San Francisco Examiner, November 24, 1986
Parmet, Barbara, Face to Face: Ten Santa Barbara Artists on the Creative Process, Santa Barbara
Arts Commission Co-Arts Program Grant and The Children's Creative Project, 1987-88,
pages 4-5 plus cover illustration
Rhodes, April, "Mary Heebner: Thoughtful New Works," ETC Magazine, April 1987, illustration
Shiffer, Tim, "Endangered Spaces" The Independent January 14, l993, illustration
Seymour, Ann, and Chotsie Blank, California Artists Cookbook, `published by Abbeville Press,
Page 83 and 208
Seymour, Ann, "Mary Heebner's Recent Collages," Artweek, Volume 12, Number 17, May 9,1981
Sprinkel, Steven, "Mary Heebner: Collage Artist," Artline, On, Of, About Paper, Volume 2,
Issue 3, 1983
Taylor-Perger, Karen, "Court’s Courtyard Calms with Soft Color" Architecture, Section E Santa
Barbara News Press Sunday April 10, l994 pages 1,3, illustrations
Woodward, Josef, "Art - Land and Mind," The Independent, June 7, 1990, Page 37, illustration
REPRESENTATION:
Joshua Heller Rare Books, Washington, DC
Cencebaugh Contemporary, New York, New York
Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, Washington