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animation, installation, and work on paper


 
 
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I told you I would never..., Drawing, 9" x 9", $75.00
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I told you I would never... by Annie Heckman, Drawing, 9" x 9", $75.00

I told you I would never leave you but I had no sense of the limitations of our inner workings, pencil and gouache on paper -- This is part of a series of drawings specially pri...
We walked for hours before..., Drawing, 9" x 9", $75.00
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We walked for hours before... by Annie Heckman, Drawing, 9" x 9", $75.00

We walked for hours before seeing that the earth had passed before us, pencil and gouache on paper -- This is part of a series of drawings specially priced as a fund-raising pro...
I forgot to tell you the story.., Drawing, 9" x 9", $75.00
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I forgot to tell you the story.. by Annie Heckman, Drawing, 9" x 9", $75.00

I forgot to tell you the story about Frigyes and the dog in the river, pencil and gouache on paper -- This is part of a series of drawings specially priced as a fund-raising pro...
You told me that looking..., Drawing, 30" x 22", $1,500.00
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You told me that looking... by Annie Heckman, Drawing, 30" x 22", $1,500.00

You told me that looking at dead things is a path through mourning, gouache, ink, and graphite on paper
I walked all day to show you..., Drawing, 30" x 22", $1,500.00
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I walked all day to show you... by Annie Heckman, Drawing, 30" x 22", $1,500.00

I walked all day to show you how clearly the inner workings are exposed, gouache, ink, and graphite on paper
We discovered that the void..., Drawing, 30" x 22", $1,500.00
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We discovered that the void... by Annie Heckman, Drawing, 30" x 22", $1,500.00

We discovered that the void is yet another illusion caused by the dissolution of ragged parts, gouache, ink, and graphite on paper

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Artist Details
  • Artist Name:
  • Annie Heckman
  • Location:
  • Chicago
  • Statement:
  • My work has four elements: love, death, people, and animals. These form the starting points for anything I make. Love and death are two limit points of experience, and people and animals are able to approximate an encounter with those limits.

    I make different structures using these parts: drawings, animations, installations, and writings. Elements of landscape and architecture appear throughout these works: walls, grass, icebergs, dirt, and the ocean. These function as sets and props to support the characters in these awkward tragedies: cats and dogs, dead relatives, rodents, the kid, and the brain doctor.

    My experiences influence the specificity of these characters, settings, and themes. When I was a kid, I walked down the train tracks to the edge of town with my friend to look at a huge dead crow. I felt a kinship with the boys in Stand By Me with this coming of age, but of course my encounter was much simpler. Still: the moldering bird, a bunny my dog tried to eat -- these were my first forays into an inkling of mortality, an understanding that has since broadened and deepened inevitably and against my desires. Faced with the impossibility of characterizing mortality, I look back to these moments of awe to formulate a language for approaching death and loss. I want my viewers to remake these early encounters with me, to become my companions in brief confrontations with the unknown.

    Looking deeply into anything with wonder is a form of re-generation and of self-abuse. This is the connective thread running through religion, love, sex, death, and all methods of amplifying the imagination. Making something to look at deeply with wonder is particularly complicated.

  • Biography:
  • Annie Heckman is a visual artist based in Chicago. Her work explores mortality and afterlife ideologies through sculptural animation installations and works on paper. She graduated with a BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MFA from New York University, both in Studio Art. Annie has exhibited her projects in numerous spaces, including projects in Chicago, New York City, Budapest, and Bialystok, Poland. Her recent works include animation installations using phosphorescence and moving parts.

    Heckman's writing practice has included experimental poetry as well as art writing and editing for exhibition catalogs, and she founded StepSister Press in late 2007 to promote discourse on emerging international art, literature, and critical theory projects. Her collection of texts Airline to Heaven, Part I was released in July 2008, with writings by Terri L. Russ and Matthew Dal Santo. Heckman works as a museum educator with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She will be presenting a solo exhibit of her installation work at the International Museum of Surgical Science in spring of 2010.
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