Elizabeth Leach 30th Anniversary Exhibition
13 years ago
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Senior Thesis Show
Hello! My installation is finished! yay! Here are the finished photos, let me know what you think! Also check out my article on What's New LaPorte website. http://www.whatsnewlaporte.com/2009/04/17/native-laporteans-art-exhibit-is-off-the-wall/ For more information about me and my artwork.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
In The News
An article about my thesis and graduation is in the Herald Argus! Thanks to Erica Wort, the Community Editor, I got a full page spread on the cover of the community section. Please read:
Off the wall exhibit
La Porte native emerging artist exhibits 2-D and 3-D printmaking installation
From staff reports
MILWAUKEE - An imaginative arrangement of 2-D and 3-D fine artist prints, "Places: Connected," by La Porte native Amanda Heise, opens April 17 at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Wisconsin's only independent, four-year college of art and design.
Through printmaking, Heise illustrates an experiment and exercise of memory and imagination. The main focus of these prints is to connect three different locations, personally and geographically. Uniting and expanding these three seemingly unconnected 2-D prints of places, results in a 3-D installation taking the viewer outside of the format traditionally used in the printmaking medium.
From her mind and preconceived ideas of these places, and with the help of images taken herself and found through the Internet, Heise reconstructs space, resulting in a map of differing viewpoints. Depending on what she can or cannot remember is a varied degree of inventing and abstraction of space.
Born in La Porte, Heise graduated from La Porte High School in 2005. There she took private art lessons in New Buffalo with artist Susan Henshaw.
After high school she was then accepted and awarded a scholarship to attend MIAD, to study printmaking and communication design. Heise has volunteered at the Studio Arts Center in South Bend, as well as interning at Milwaukee Street Gallery in Milwaukee, Wis. She has participated in several group shows and has her work in many private collections in Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, including the collection of the former Governor of Indiana Joseph Kernan.
The importance of place for her started at her grandparent's home. Their house was the meeting place every week for aunts, uncles and cousins. This tradition has strongly bonded her family together. Participating in road trips with her grandfather and mother her whole life expanded her love of travel and experiencing new places.
"I am inspired by experiences and memory," says Heise. "Through these varied levels of consciousness I am interested in comparing, contrasting and connecting these places with me personally and how the perception of a place changes depending on time spent there."
"Places: Connected" is part of the college's 2009 Senior Exhibition at MIAD, featuring more than 130 students of the class of 2009. Heise and her classmates will receive their degrees on May 9. More of Heise's work can be seen at http://amandaheise.blogspot.com.
"Places: Connected," Heise's exhibit, will be open April 17 to May 9. Opening reception will be on April 17 from 5 to 10 p.m. at 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee. The exhibit is open from Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibit is free. Call (414) 847-3200 or visit www.miad.edu to learn more.
La Porte native emerging artist exhibits 2-D and 3-D printmaking installation
From staff reports
MILWAUKEE - An imaginative arrangement of 2-D and 3-D fine artist prints, "Places: Connected," by La Porte native Amanda Heise, opens April 17 at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Wisconsin's only independent, four-year college of art and design.
Through printmaking, Heise illustrates an experiment and exercise of memory and imagination. The main focus of these prints is to connect three different locations, personally and geographically. Uniting and expanding these three seemingly unconnected 2-D prints of places, results in a 3-D installation taking the viewer outside of the format traditionally used in the printmaking medium.
From her mind and preconceived ideas of these places, and with the help of images taken herself and found through the Internet, Heise reconstructs space, resulting in a map of differing viewpoints. Depending on what she can or cannot remember is a varied degree of inventing and abstraction of space.
Born in La Porte, Heise graduated from La Porte High School in 2005. There she took private art lessons in New Buffalo with artist Susan Henshaw.
After high school she was then accepted and awarded a scholarship to attend MIAD, to study printmaking and communication design. Heise has volunteered at the Studio Arts Center in South Bend, as well as interning at Milwaukee Street Gallery in Milwaukee, Wis. She has participated in several group shows and has her work in many private collections in Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, including the collection of the former Governor of Indiana Joseph Kernan.
The importance of place for her started at her grandparent's home. Their house was the meeting place every week for aunts, uncles and cousins. This tradition has strongly bonded her family together. Participating in road trips with her grandfather and mother her whole life expanded her love of travel and experiencing new places.
"I am inspired by experiences and memory," says Heise. "Through these varied levels of consciousness I am interested in comparing, contrasting and connecting these places with me personally and how the perception of a place changes depending on time spent there."
"Places: Connected" is part of the college's 2009 Senior Exhibition at MIAD, featuring more than 130 students of the class of 2009. Heise and her classmates will receive their degrees on May 9. More of Heise's work can be seen at http://amandaheise.blogspot.com.
"Places: Connected," Heise's exhibit, will be open April 17 to May 9. Opening reception will be on April 17 from 5 to 10 p.m. at 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee. The exhibit is open from Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibit is free. Call (414) 847-3200 or visit www.miad.edu to learn more.
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