Heidi Neff Art

The image shows a painting on the let and a detail on the right. Th words that can easily b read say "Save me Lord, for I am drowning" and "Acts of God and manmade horrors..."

I moved from church ceilings to the geometry of illuminated manuscripts. This was 2005-ish just before smart phones but breaking news notifications were really ramping up. I have too much to say about this so I'll continue below. #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #illuminatedmanuscript

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Five small portraits of political figures form 2004. Hilary Clinton, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, John Edwards, and Condoleeza Rice. They all have their mouths open.

The fake passion in politicians giving speeches reminded me of the porn stars. These gouache paintings were exhibited in "Elective Acts" in Pheonix, AZ. Conservative portraits sold. I also had large paintings of Bush and Kerry, which were not even displayed, because I made Kerry look so bad....

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30 9" x 12" paintings zooming in on porn star's faces as they simulate pleasure

6. Working with porn as reference made me cry. I added to the women I painted return humanity to the cropped images. In "heads", I zoomed in closer to focus on pleasure. The irony is this was all staged , but eliminating the rest of the scene helps focus on the female experience.

My profs were right about the need for some kind of structure. The earlier drawings are more like my brain. I've learned relatively recently that I have ADHD which explains why I have a hard time picturing the completion or overall structure of something. Setting up a structure first does help.

To me, this series was about spiritual and physical ecstasy (and my puzzlement that these are often viewed in opposition to each other.)

I think some understood, but most people saw these as making fun of the church or sticking it to religion. I moved on when I realized I didn't want to do that.

A couple of my grad school professors thought that I needed a framework for my piles of figures. A friend sent me a postcard from her summer in Rome and the church ceiling became that framework.

Two paintings next to each other. On the left we have a baroque painted ceiling by Corregio with a figure being taken up into the heavens. On teh right we have an oil painting based on the Corregio, but with sexual acts depicted.

4. "Glory Hole", 60" x 60" Oil on Canvas, 2002 (right) and "Assumption of the Virgin" by Correggio. More thoughts in the comments. #painting #contemporarypainting #art #contemporaryart

Did you always like colored pencils? I don't remember. I am currently somewhat obsessed. Teaching things teaches me.

A charcoal, graphite, ink, and gesso drawing of a somewhat abstracted pile of bodies with various body parts sticking out.

3. This series resonated with me enough, that in 2020 I used this bad reproduction to create a short animation youtu.be/mdwEcdkFYbQ?...
NSFW. #contemporaryart #indieanimation #contemporarydrawing #drawing #art

Two black and white drawings with layered figures side-by-side.

#2 Here are two of my grad school drawings, which to this day are some of my favorite work. These two are not as explicit as others, but like the others include piles and layers of nude bodies. I was very interested in the transient nature of passion. #art #contemporaryart #drawing

Two pictures side by side. They both picture a wedding dress with writing in sharpie all over it. One is 35 mm slide that shows a larger installation piece the dress is in. There are boarded up windows with drawings stapled to them and a filled sketchbook on the podium.

#1 A year or 2 after College. My first installation piece with my wedding dress for a marriage that didn't happen covered with emotional text. It was personal, but I realize it was my first political piece. I was figuring out who I was if not a wife. #installationart #contemporaryart

Big fan of printmaking, make some myself :)

Facebook goes first because it's not even fun anymore. Insta is going to have to go eventually because I don't trust Meta, but that will be more painful.

It seems to be the best one!

White letters on black slide: "Religion, Heartbreak, Sex, Politics, and the Digital Apocalypse. Where the Poitical and the Personal Intersect. Or th emore things change the more they stay the same. Paintings, Drawings, Animations, and Installatios. Heidi Neff.

I was lucky to be invited to McDaniel College last month to do an artist's talk. I will post slides here daily, so I have time to write a little bit about each slide. Please indulge me :) It will also be helpful when I inevitably do another slide talk but can't find my last powerpoint.

I saw someone is making some app so that your feed can look more like instagram, but I think that's not fully the point. I know a lot of artists who have migrated, now to figure out how to get similar artists to show up in said feed....I haven't fully left either.

@andyrosenartworks.bsky.social Have you found any? These are probably more to your taste than any of the general art feeds I have found...still trying to figure this all out.

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Looking for art feeds I would be most interested in. Where is contemporary art (painting, sculpture, installation, video art and indie animation etc.) Not really interested in anime or manga FAN art, OCs, or digital artists seeking commissions. Will link to ones I follow in comments. #art

Flyer that says: 1st Collective Action Historian Heather Cox Richardson Economic Blackout-24 hours Friday, February 28, 12 AM-11:59PM TURN OFF THE ECONOMY Show who really hods the power = US What you can do: *Buy ONLY essentials/absolute necessities (Food, Medicine, Emergency Supplies.) But the goal is--buy OTHING. If you must sped, Only support small, local businesses. Spread this message: email friends everywhere, post on social media, share, document Why? Corporations, banks on car about their sacred bottom line. You can disrupt the economy for just one day to send a powerful message. IF they fail to listen, the nexxt blackout will be longer. Make history together. February 28--24-Hour Economic Black Out Begins.! No purchases in store, online. No amazon, Walmart BEst Buy. Nowhere! No Credit or Debit Cards for non-essential spending. WE can do this together!

Like turning profiles black etc.? Yeah. I want to stop living the way that got us here. I want to say no to big corporate monopolies and yes to being able to find something in a store nearby where i might possibly run into a friend. For example. The February 28 action is good start.

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Here is the trailer for my 2021 award-winning animated short "The Long Goodbye", a personal diary of election day 2020 to inauguration day 2021. It continues to be relevant. You can watch the whole thing on daily motion. dai.ly/k5ntlY3VBSQk...

#monoprints #gelplate #art #acrylicpaint #ghosts #rockingchairs

Hey, it's my first post on Bluesky! Here's some monoprints I made with my gel plate on wood panels. The series is called "Disquiet in Ordinary Time"