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Priscilla Heine
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Ripe When one sees something, in say, a landscape, or a chair floating in a shaft of light, or a face that is beautiful and somehow breathtaking - it delivers us from the chatter and anxiety and mundane existence on which level the world seems to operate. It delivers us back to our breath, to beauty to which we are deeply tied. Beauty by which we are both calmed and stimulated - this is what I seek to do in painting - to give a glimpse of that moment of seeing.
Priscilla Heine, Artist's Statement
Born in 1956, Priscilla Heine grew up in New York City. Aware from a very early age that painting and drawing were essential to her identity, she continually sought training through her formative years. In 1979 she received a BFA from Tufts University and a five year program provided her with a diploma of Painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Priscilla has spent many summers on the Mediterranean and other summers painting the rural landscape of Northern Vermont, where she maintains a studio. Combining these experiences with ten years of living on New York's lower East side in the eighties, have provided the light and context for the psychological tensions that surface in her paintings.
Priscilla Heine has engaged in many years of exploration and development ranging from color field painting, to years of autobiographical representational material, to austere landscapes and symbolic compositions inspired by a balance of internal and external landscapes. The elements of her drawing and painting combine to create a formal abstraction while allowing intimate references to weave in and out of layered paint.
