June 14 – July 20, 2025
Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
New Drawings Juried Group Exhibition
Heron’s work was selected for New Drawings, a juried group exhibition at Kentler International Drawing Space, celebrating its 35th anniversary. The exhibition was juried by Samantha Friedman, Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and featured contemporary drawing practices by 77 artists from across the country.
November 1- December 7, 2024
Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
The Voracious Eye
Heron’s work was included in The Voracious Eye, a group exhibition curated by Joan Grubin at Opalka Gallery. The exhibition brought together artists whose work engages with visual intensity and layered complexity. Heron presented 110 works from WW, an ongoing series of daily paintings and drawings she has sustained since 2013. The discipline began as a response to losing her studio, evolving into a long-term practice grounded in repetition, intuition, and material engagement.
A DAILY A DAY
Just looking . . . daily
Just collecting . . . daily
Just making . . . every day
Memory, imprint, subconscious, hand to paper
Repeat
My one rule: one painting or drawing a day for the rest of my life. Rain or shine, sick or well. As of September 1, 2024, there are 3,838 works on paper. This series began after losing my studio in 2013. Around that time I read how John Coltrane practiced scales every day. I wondered, how can a visual artist do the equivalent of scales? So I decided to make a painting a day, every day, on 9 × 12 inch Bristol board paper, the largest that fit my desktop. Each piece is numbered on the back. I need the revelations that come from work. There are discoveries that can only happen by doing. Doing opens doors.
The associative power found in the shape, color, and visual language of natural forms as well as human-made objects say, “Pick me up. I’ve got something to say. Listen!”
I do.