Mary Heebner
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Mary Heebner (b. April 19, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an artist known for paintings — especially abstract landscape paintings — artist books and paper making. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the University of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Collection. Her books are published under her imprint, simplemente maria Press. Her work is represented by Edward Cella Art + Architecture
In 2003, Heebner achieved renown outside the art world with the publication of an illustrated, bilingual version of Pablo Neruda's On the Blue Shore of Silence. The book, released by Harper Collins-Rayo is based on a hand-made, limited edition artist book by the same title. Printed in honor of the poet's 100th birthday, the book featured Heebner's paintings, as well as English translations of Neruda's work by Scottish writer Alastair Reid and an afterword by Antonio Skármeta. A companion book, Intimacies: Poems of Love by Pablo Neruda followed in 2008, with Heebner's series of paintings entitled Muse. Heebner's work also appears on the cover of Gretel Ehrlich's The Future of Ice. Director Russ Spencer featured Heebner and her husband, travel photographer Macduff Everton, in his 2000 documentary "Full Circle," which chronicled the making of the couple's book, The Western Horizon. Her mural painting, "Mojave", combining word and image from The Western Horizon project is part of the permanent collection of American artists curated by Virginia Shore for the Chancery of the United States Embassy in Moscow.
Heebner also writes travel journalism articles for such publications as Conde Nast Traveler, Travel+Life Islands, and National Geographic Traveler. Heebner graduated from the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara in 1977. She currently resides in Santa Barbara, California.
Heebner's work "Mani Wall paintings & A Sacred Geography: Sonnets of the Himalaya and Tibet" was recently exhibited at UCLA's Fowler Museum concurrent with the traveling show, "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama." Heebner's most recent handmade book, is The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: An artist's interpretation of the classic text by William Shakespeare
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- The Western Horizon, by Mary Heebner and Macduff Everton (2000) ISBN 0-8109-4562-2
- On the Blue Shore of Silence, by Pablo Neruda (2003) ISBN 0-06-059184-6
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