Mary heebner biography
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Mary Heebner (b.
Mary Heebner is a multi-media visual artist.
April 19, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) Mary Heebner works in several mediums including painting, photography and handmade artists books. Her work is exhibited internationally, and is in collections of 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. She 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