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Heather Beard

May 17 - June 17
In the Real Room

Opening Reception Thursday, May 17,
6-9pm @ Creative Cocktail Hour

Heather Noel Beard creates photographs and digital videos that show the body within interstitial space. Just as the body is represented between states of presence and absence, the sites are, as well. For example, two sites of which Beard has made imagery are the former Hathaway Shirt factory in Waterville, Maine, and the now defunct Bethlehem Steel mill in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Using strategies of scale, tactility, and sound, Beard reveals site beyond materiality, and viewers can oscillate between their perception and her activation of spatial affects. In effect, this continuous becoming has the potential to change not only viewers' specific milieus, but also the future possibility for what is represented.

.: Artist website

Heather Beard is one of six selected artists from our 2006 open call, Open, an exhibition series featuring six emerging artists from New York and New England.


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