Shelley Heffler

STATEMENT

My work speaks as both painting and sculpture. Trash and consumerism, a by- product of man’s mark on the environment, is destroying our environment. I salvage vinyl street banners before they are discarded in landfills and use the words, colors and imagery, as a powerful starting point in my process. I cut, slash, crunch, and weave the vinyl into three-dimensional objects. Through the action of deconstructing, I attempt to restructure and form material to reclaim and restore a healing presence through the work.

BIO

Shelley Heffler was born and raised in the Bronx. She received her first Degree in Interior Design at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, followed by a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Art from Cal State Northridge. Her teaching career started in 1986 as an adjunct professor at Otis College, CSUN, and full-time ceramic teacher at Hollywood and John Marshall High School. Shelley’s flourishing art practice continues to grow, receiving awards, fellowships and residencies. Her works are owned by many collectors across the United States and is in the permanent collection at the Inglewood Senior Center. She is President of the Southern California Women’s Caucus and serves on the board of the SoLA Contemporary as Secretary and Education Coordinator.

EXHIBITIONS/SHOWS/COMMISSIONS

Residencies
2019 Buffalo Creek Art Center, Nevada
2017 360 Xochi Quetzal Winter 2017, Lake Chapala, Mexico​

Solo Exhibitions
2018 Altered States, Art Depot Gallery, Fontana, CA
2017 Charting Conditions in the Anthropocene Era, Verde Valley Art Gallery, Arizona
2017 Maps of the Imagination, Yavapai Gallery, Prescott, Arizona
1989 Out Of Order, West L. A. City Hall, Los Angeles, CA

​Special Project
The Community Quilt Project , 2020-2021

Group Exhibitions
2o21
UHM Gallery, Seoul Korea
Gangdong Art Center, Gang Wo Do, Korea
Ginburyung Art Gallery, Gang Wo Do, Korea
Art Space Ryu, Kyungki Do
Inchun Art Platform, Inchun, Korea
Another Year in LA, online exhibition
Looking For America, juried by Philippa P.B. Hughes, Washington, DC
New Life-rediscovered, curated by Ann Phong, Gallery Western, Los Angeles, CA
Shape Shifters, Anne Bedrick Fine Art, Palm Springs, CA
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2020
Perseverance, SoLA Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Transition, LaunchLa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curater Holly Jerger
Pulse of LA, Protest, online exhibition
Post Pride, Ace 121 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pulse of LA, in the time of Quarantine
35th Lancaster Juried Show, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, award
Poetry in Place, South Pasadena City Hall, CA
360• of Healing, Artfully Spaced Gallery, Inglewood, CA
The Same Thing Every day, Moorpark College, CA
A Contemporary Nod to Modernism, Palm Springs, CA
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​2019
Celebrating All Matter, Matter Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Experimental, Creative Practice and Collaboration, SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Labyrinth, Embed Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Forming Matter, Matter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
#ENOUGH, Neutra Gallery, SCWCA members exhibition, CA
Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH
Coy, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA​
hard mud-soft threads,The Loft Gallery, San Pedro, CA
Social Icing, Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Color Perspectives: Differences Shine, Artfully Spaced Gallery, Inglewood, CA
Unfettered, Avenue 50 Gallery, Highland Park, CA
MMA- Women's Mixed Media Arts- Helms Gallery, Culver City, CA
Converge- Beacon's Art Building, CA

2018
The Other Art Fair, Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA
The Non- Objective Moment, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Lonnie Lardner
Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH award
Altered States, Art depot Gallery, Fontana, CA solo show
Hecho a Mano, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Jillith Moniz
Fresh, SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Peter Frank and Fatima Burnes
33rd Annual Art Show, MOAH, Cedars, Lancaster, CA
Memories on Location, Keystone Gallery, curator Christine Rasmussen
Trappings, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Order from Chaos, La Gitano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Artists- Park Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Speaks! Lend Your Voice, Arena One Gallery, curator Jill Moniz, Los Angeles

2017
Phenomena, Neutra Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Abstracted Badass, Shockboxx Project Gallery, El Segundo, CA
Charting Conditions in the Anthropocene Era, Verde Valley Art Gallery, AZ (catalog) solo
​Language of Memory and Maps of the Imagination, Shelley Heffler and Diane Silver, Yavapai College Art Gallery, Prescott, AZ
Post Supremitist, Balconi Gallery, curated by Kio Griffith, Los Angeles, CA
Fresh, SoLA Gallery, curators Peter Frank and Fatemeh Burnes, CA, Award
Abstract II, Beyond the Lines Gallery, Santa Monica,CA

2016
Hale Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Art and Earth, Berkeley Arts Council, West Virginia
Contemporary Women, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA
Dulcepalluza, 808 E. Pine Ave., El Segundo, CA
Garden of Earthly Delights, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Zero Down, Inglewood, CA
Out There, Gallery 825, curators William Escalera & Francisco George, Los Angeles,
Spectrum, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Play, curator Scott Canty, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
CA 101, South Bay Contemporary, CITY, CA
Brand 44 Works on Paper, Annual National Juried Exhibition, juror Laddie John Dill, Los Angeles, CA
Touchstone, Art Transforming Trauma, A Window Between Worlds, CA
Artisan Series, Bombay Sapphire, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA
Inglewood Open Studios, Los Angeles, CA
MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
In the Studio, CAEA, Mission Viejo, CA
Art Start, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Orange, CA
Eclectic Expression, Santa Monica Studios, Santa Monica, CA
Perimeter Gallery, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, A
CASA of Los Angeles, CA

2015
Embler Gallery, American Airlines International, Miami, FL
MAS Attack, San Diego Art Institute, CA
Prohibition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Alios Gallery, curator Max Presneill, Las Vegas, Nevada
VS, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Americana, Blackboard Gallery, Camarillo, CA
CA 101,AES Power Plant, Redondo Beach, CA
All Media 2015, Irvine Fine Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
Water, A Necessary Conversation, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
MAS Attack, Temporary Space, Los Angeles, CA
Inglewood Open Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Art My Way, Art Forward, Los Angeles, CA

2014
Miami River, Art Fair, Miami, FL
Fresh, South Bay Contemporary Art Gallery, CITY, CA
Inglewood Open Studios, Inglewood, CA
Tag Gallery, Juried Exhibition, juror Laddie John Dill, Honorable Mention, Los Angeles, CA
Zero Down, Inglewood, CA
Coastline Art Gallery, Southern California members show, CITY, CA
Open Call, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
10 x 10, SCWCA @the Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
Open Theme, Picture This Gallery, Long Beach, CA

2013
Reconnecting Art, Idyllwild Arts Center, Idyllwild, CA
Inglewood Open Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
Creative Connections, California Art Education Association, Orange County, CA
Open Studios Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Story of the Creative, See.me, Online Art Gallery, New York, NY

2011
What Those Who Teach Can Do, Los Angeles Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Colors, Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010
Mobius, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
New Members Group Show, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007 - 2009
Open Call 2009, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Singular Creation, Los Angeles, CA.

1990 - 1994
Juried Sculpture Show, Long Beach Art Association, Honorable Mention, Long Beach, CA
Contemporary Artists, Wetherholt Gallery, Washington D.C.
Group Exhibition, Wetherholt Gallery, Washington D.C.
Group Show, The Funding Center, Washington, D.C.

EDUCATION

Education
Master’s Degree in Fine Art, Cal State University Northridge, Magna Cum Laude
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
​Otis College, Los Angeles

AWARDS

2020 35th Lancaster Juried Show, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, award
2018 Art Comes Alive, Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH award
2017 Fresh, SoLA Gallery, curators Peter Frank and Fatemeh Burnes, CA, Award
2014 Tag Gallery, Juried Exhibition, juror Laddie John Dill, Honorable Mention, Los Angeles, CA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

President, Southern California Women's Caucus
Education Coordinator, SoLA Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles
Ceramic Instructor, LAUSD
Photographer, World Series of Poker, Las Vegas

TAGS

abstract artist, mixed media artist, Los Angeles Artist, weaving,