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Artist Statement:
I walked up the dirt road
before leaving the mountains.
Fall was creeping in. I
thought a car had driven by,
but there remained a strange
banging and rattling noise. I
turned around and listened,
yet nobody was there. I looked
again; it was just a 25
mile-an-hour sign caught up in
a tree. With the winds kicking
up, I ran back down the hill.
There were always strange
machines in the basement. A
Victrola, oil lamps, and car
transmissions sat in the dark,
collecting dust by the coal
furnace. I grew up in a log
home on a mountainside in
Pennsylvania’s coal regions,
where black slag piles were
poised to swallow one-street
towns: a landmark of the
Industrial Revolution’s
demise. When I would pass just
over the ridge and wander
through abandoned factories, I
could feel the heavy air
inside: damp and laden with an
eerie silence.
My childhood existed at the
tail end of an era of
typewriters and rotary phones:
forms of communication that
demand a physical connection.
These fragmented memories
still exist in the tactility
of ink embedded into a
surface, whether rolled
through a press or fed through
a typewriter. ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected Exhibitions (*Solo
Shows, ** Two or Three-Person
Shows)
2011
Sixth Annual Ohio Online
Visual Artist Registry Juried
Show, Carnegie Gallery,
Columbus Metropolitan Main
Library, Columbus, OH.
We’re Still Fine, Eckhaus
Gallery, Kutztown, PA
Printed Matters, Fort Hayes
Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus,
OH
Confluences: 2011 Master of
Fine Arts ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
Wednesday, July 22,2009
CityBeat, Cincinnati Ohio
Weekly, Arts Section, Critic's
Pick
Rendered Obsolete (Review)
Rachel Heberling and Katherine
Rogers turn abandoned spaces
into beauty at Aisle Gallery
By Laura Leffler
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The current exhibition at
Aisle Gallery, Rendered
Obsolete: Printmaking by
Rachel E. Heberling and
Katherine Rogers, focuses on
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Collections:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Library, The Ohio State
University Libraries,
Columbus, OH
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell
University, PA
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Rachel E Heberling Biography:
| Biographical information for Rachel E Heberling can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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27
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Committed
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Exploring abandoned places, printing, paging through old maps, ads, and manuals, cooking, riding trains, and a good read. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Printmaking Lithography
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Social Realism - (1930 - 1945)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Tough question. I'll say Jay Bolotin
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Recent- Gravity was Everywhere Back Then
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
My hometown- the abandoned coal regions of southeastern and central Pennsylvania, as well as growing up in a reconstructed log home surrounded by antiques and oddities. And also my professors- mainly Evan Summer from Kutztown University and Rosalyn Richards of Bucknell University. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
Since I had enough cognitive function to hold a pencil. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Rachel E Heberling has just received an M.F.A. in Printmaking at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and is currently working as the printer for artist Jay Bolotin in Cincinnati, Ohio for his feature-length animation. Rachel was recently a graduate administrative assistant for professors Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil for one year at The Ohio State University; completed a two-year non-degree graduate teaching assistantship in printmaking at Bucknell University of Pennsylvania in 2009; and received a B.F.A. from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 2006. Her artwork is influenced by her former home of Bethel, Pennsylvania, which borders the mining regions of Schuylkill County, as much of her work portrays obsolete technology and abandoned industry.
Rachel’s work has been exhibited nationally in venues such as Roy G Biv, Columbus, OH; Aisle Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; the Arts Club of Washington, DC; and The Corcoran Gallery Museum, DC. She has shown in many juried exhibitions including Third Annual Master Pieces, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; Drawn to Washington, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, MD; The Boston Printmakers 2007 North American Print Biennial, Boston, MA; and the 181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art at the National Academy Museum, NYC. She is working in printmaking, the book arts, performance, video and installation to project memories and histories through antique objects.
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