Affiliated Artists Heidi Oberheide

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For over two decades, eastern Washington artist Heidi Oberheide has been exhibiting at Linda Hodges Gallery. In this, her 11th exhibition, Oberheide continues her recent exploration of what she calls "color shape paintings." Originally intended as paintings of trees, the series evolved into tree trunks that now have become "shapes of color." In these new paintings Oberheide is primarily concerned with a figure-ground relationship, while also taking into consideration a variation in hue, value and intensity. By intentionally softening the edges, she imparts a deliberate hand-painted look and suggests organic forms with tilted shapes and uneven ends. Each painting reads as a strong total image with its own particular character and expression
Heidi Oberheide holds a M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University and has received a Western States NEA Fellowship in Painting and two purchase awards from the Washington State Arts Commission. She has shown extensively throughout Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Her work is in numerous private and public collections in the United States and Canada, including the National Gallery of Canada, The Canada Council Art Bank, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Her work can also be found in the corporate collection of Microsoft, and in the Art in Public Places Program of the Washington State Arts Commission and the Missoula Museum of Art. She currently resides in Palouse, Washington.