Heidi Oberheide, an Eastern Washington artist, explores what she describes as "color shape paintings." Primarily concerned with color relationships, especially variations in hue, value and intensity, Oberheide reduces what were originally tree forms into elemental "shapes of color," and arranges them in a row across the canvas. The color shapes in the rows are slightly tilted with uneven ends, imparting an organic quality and giving each painting a strong total image with its own particular character and expression.
Heidi Oberheide holds a MFA 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. She currently resides in Palouse, Washington.
RESUME
EDUCATION
1971 MFA Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1969 BFA Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA; Rancho Vista Gallery, Oracle, AZ
2007 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 Compton Union Gallery, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1996 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1994 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA; Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
1992 Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, MT; Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle
1990 Pritchard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1986 Fine Arts Center, Gallery II, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1985 Hodges/Banks Gallery, Seattle, WA 1984 Nancy Poole Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Ring House Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 1983 Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada
1972-82 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta; Memorial University Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Summer Selections, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA; "Release: The Art of Angling in the American West," Saranac Art Project, Spokane, WA; 40th Anniversary Invitational, Davis Dominquez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2006 "Curator's Choice Exhibit: From the Palouse," Washington State Museum of Art, Pullman, WA
2005 Strange Beasts: David Kraisler, Heidi Oberheide and Ann Porter, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA
2003 Animality, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 Husbands and Wives, University of Puget Sound Department of Art, Tacoma, WA
2000 Inaugural Group Exhibition, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA; Earth Day, Chase Gallery, Spokane Arts Commission, Spokane, WA
1999 From Here to the Horizon: Artists of the Rural Landscape, WhatcomMuseum, Bellingham, WA
REVIEWS
High Desert Journal, "Paintings, Heide Oberheide," Issue 13, Spring, 2011, p. 8; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Three shows are a contrast in styles by Regina Hackett, August, 1994; Seattle Times, Metaphysical paintings with a light, modest touch by David Berger, September 22, 1992; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Oberheides images float in a sea of cultural memory by Regina Hackett, September 26, 1992; Seattle Times, paintings draw from style of ancient petroglyphs by Karen Mathieson, April 12, 1990; Seattle Weekly, New Reviews by Lyn Smallwood, April 25, 1990; Palouse Living, Oberheide paintings being shown at WSU though September 26 by Tom Paulson, September 23, 1986; Seattle Weekly, Visual Arts: Heidi Oberheide by Bradford Collins, February 20,1985; Canadian Art, Spring 1985; Arts Atlantic, Heidi Oberheide: Recent Work by Janice Andreae, March 1983; Vanguard, Summer 1983; Atlantic Insight, January 1982; Ottawa Revue, April 1978; Arts Canada, 1976 and 1977; Vie des Arts, January 1976