Dawn, 2014 Oil on canvas 48x36
Endless Skies, 2014 Oil on canvas 48 x36
Stormy Weather, 2014, Oil on canvas, 48x36
Down the Shore, 2015, Oil on prepared paper, 16x17
O Happy Day, 2014, Oil on canvas, 48x36
Autumn Sunset, 2014, Oil on canvas, 48x36
Wind on the Plains, 2016, Oil on canvas, 48x36
The Meadow, 2016, Oil on prepared paper, 24x30
Yellow Sky & Deep Blue Sea, 2014, Oil on canvas, 48x36
Night Pond, 2014, Oil on canvas, 48x36
STATEMENT
My work is evocative of nature in many guises, whether a painting of a sky fragment in various brilliant and subtle colors, a vase of flowers of real or imaginary variety, or the serendipitous results of working in encaustic and seeing where the material leads me. I’ve recently begun to work with soft pastels as well, and have been seduced by the intensity of the colors and the ease of application.
I studied painting with Irving Marantz and Sam Feinstein, and pastels with Peggy Dressel. I studied Art History at Oberlin College, where I majored in music. I moved to NYC after graduation and became a professional musician, a career which I have pursued for the past sixty years. My love of both art and music has given me a rich and satisfying life.
Marsha Heller
388 Allaire Avenue, Leonia, New Jersey 07605
201-944-6443
EDUCATION:
| Art History at Oberlin | |
| Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts in New York | |
| Oil painting with Revington Arthur at Chautauqua for three years, with Irving Marantz at NYU and with Sam | |
| Feinstein in New York |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
| 2016 | Ceres Gallery, NYC members group show “Summer Celebrations” Belskie Museum Salute to Women in the Arts group show Old Church Cultural Center Small Works Show |
| 2015 | Salute to Women in the Arts Group Show, Riverside Gallery PNC Bank Corporate Center permanent collection, Pittsburgh Studio on Dumont, NJ show |
| 2014 | Salute to Women in the Arts group show prize winner Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ One Woman Show “Recent Paintings and Pastels” Studio Montclair Group Show, Academy Square, Montclair, NJ |
| 2013 | Riverside gallery, Hackensack, NJ One Woman Show “The Book of Skies” Elements Therapeutic Massage Group Show, Montclair, NJ Down Cellar, Basking Ridge, NJ One Woman Show Leonia Sculpture Garden |
| 2012 | Riverside Gallery, Hackensack NJ One Woman Show “Recent Paintings” Portage Hill Gallery, Mayville, NY |
| 2011 | Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ One Woman Show “New Work” |
| 2010 | WestSide Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ Group Show Cliffside Park Free Public Library One Woman Show “Pastels and Acrylics” |
| 2009 | Fairleigh Dickinson University, One Woman Show “Recent Landscapes” Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ One Woman Show “New Paintings” |
| 2012 | Portage Hill Gallery, Mayville, New York2008 Valley Cottage Library “Sight and Insight” solo show Salute “Winterfest” Group Show, Northern New Jersey Center for the Arts |
| 2011 | Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ One Woman Show “Another Look” Leonard Hansen Gallery, Englewood Library, Englewood, NJ One Woman Show |
| 2007 | Yaacov Heller Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ “Encaustic and Acrylic Dreamscapes” Park Lane Photo and Imaging Gallery, Chatham, NJ One Woman Show Chautauqua Annual Juried Show, juried by Kim Foster of Kim Foster Gallery, NYC |
| 2006 | Portage Hill Gallery, Mayville , NY – winner of “Plein Air” Competition Group from 311 Show, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center |
| 2005 | Fort Lee Museum Group Show Portage Hill Gallery, Mayville, NY – winner of “Plein Air” Competition |
| 2004 | Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center “The Group from 311″ Group Show |
| 2003 | Klavier Haus, NYC – One Woman Show “Autumn Music” Ward Nasse Gallery, Soho, NYC – Group Show Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NY Group Show “Dancing with Color” Group Show> |
| 2002 | Fort Lee Artists Guild Annual – Prize Winner Puffin Cultural Foundation Traveling Landscape Show, now in Cuba Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NY Group Show Jadite Gallery, NYC Two Women Show |
| 2001 | Old Church Cultural Center Annual Small Works Juried Show Montclair State University Gallery One – One Woman Show “The Gallery” at Franklin Lakes Presbyterian Church – One Woman Show “The Color of Flowers” – St. Peter’s Church, Citicorp Building, NYC – One Woman Show |
| 2000 | Essex Fine Arts Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey Bergen Community College, Ridgewood, New Jersey Yaacov Heller Gallery, Pompano Beach, Florida Fort Lee Artists Guild Annual – Prize Winner |
| 1999 | Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts -Group Show Westfield Art Association – Lecture-Demo- “Light & Color in Landscape Painting” Gardens Mall Galleria, Boca Raton, Florida “The Color of Landscape” Two Woman Show – Attleboro Museum (Mass) |
| 1998 | Watchung Art Center, Watchung, NJ Group Show – Prize winner New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts Group Show SPA State Park Little Theatre Lobby – Two Women Show Salmagundi Club- NSPCA National Juried Show, NYC Salute to Women in the Arts” First Biennial Show – Prize winner |
PUBLICATIONS:
| Color and How to Use It –Marcie Cooperman | |
| The Book of Skies – Marsha Heller |