heather sheehan

heather sheehan

  • hello
  • artist statement
  • intro
  • selected works
  • current works
    • visual-verbal works
      • Sylta, the Whaling Widow Who Wails
      • One Woman, One Stone
      • Sharpless, Margaret
      • burlap poem video
      • 2021 box edition
      • live readings
      • installed texts
    • b & w photography
      • monograph
      • Self Portrait with Ear to Future & Past
      • In Muddier Years
      • Island- Burying the Dead
      • Washday on the River
      • Farm
      • Institutional
    • video + performance
    • textile installation + object
    • stitched drawings
    • on paper
  • earlier works
    • intro text
    • textile installation + object
    • on paper
    • photography
    • video + performance
  • about
    • biography en + de
    • interview texts
    • wikipedia english
    • wikipedia deutsch
    • cv
    • publications
    • videography
  • contact
'(w)hole wall', 2014-2015
325cm x 484cm / 10.6' x 15.8'
water soluble graphite
photo: Alistair Overbruck
"Drawing directly on the plaster wall, Sheehan eliminates the barrier between the viewer and the artwork. Line after imperfect line, top to bottom and side to side, the wall takes on the illusion of woven cloth. A singular opening interrupts the expanse to appear as a portal. The viewer is invited to pass through the wall, to enter into an undulating vision of their own making. Part provocateur, part humanist, Sheehan asks us to reconsider the belief in our inadequacy despite the fact of our completeness. To enjoy feeling whole in spite of the holes in our nature." SAM


Copyright Heather Sheehan, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Authors and Photographers.