The Venus Paintings by Mary Heebner | Edward Cella

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Mary Heebner, Venus II (Poetry is pure white)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko Natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag, and handmade paper

Mary Heebner, Venus II (Poetry is pure white)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko Natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag, and handmade paper

Mary Heebner, Venus II (Poetry is pure white)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko Natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag, and handmade paper

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Mary Heebner, Venus II (Poetry is pure white), 2013

Mixed media collage on Torinoko Natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag, and handmade paper, 78 x 38 1/2 in. (198.1 x 97.8 cm)

Graffiti in piece are the first lines of a Pablo Neruda poem. Image Source: Roman Leda from San Antonio Museum of Art.

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Mary Heebner, Venus III (One with violets in her lap)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including rose tinted gampi paper

Mary Heebner, Venus III (One with violets in her lap)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including rose tinted gampi paper

Mary Heebner, Venus III (One with violets in her lap)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including rose tinted gampi paper

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Mary Heebner, Venus III (One with violets in her lap), 2013

Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including rose tinted gampi paper, 78 x 38 1/2 in. (198.1 x 97.8 cm)

Image Source: Small Roman Venus from Museo Arte Romano, Mérida, Spain

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Mary Heebner, Venus IV (Into desire I shall come)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including ochre pigmented flax paper

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Mary Heebner, Venus IV (Into desire I shall come), 2013

Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including ochre pigmented flax paper, 78 x 38 1/2 in. (198.1 x 97.8 cm)

Graffiti in piece are from Fragment Sappho.

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Mary Heebner, Venus V (And in longing, she bites her tender mind)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper

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Mary Heebner, Venus V (And in longing, she bites her tender mind), 2013

Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper, 78 x 38 1/2 in. (198.1 x 97.8 cm)

Graffiti in piece are the lines of a Sappho Fragment 96. Image source: Aphrodite from JP Getty Villa

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Mary Heebner, Venus VII (Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including hand-marbles indigo on linen paper, and wax coated graphite tissue

Mary Heebner, Venus VII (Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including hand-marbles indigo on linen paper, and wax coated graphite tissue

Mary Heebner, Venus VII (Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including hand-marbles indigo on linen paper, and wax coated graphite tissue

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Mary Heebner, Venus VII (Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time), 2013

Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including hand-marbles indigo on linen paper, and wax coated graphite tissue, 78 x 38 1/2 in. (198.1 x 97.8 cm)

Image source: Venus from Lespugue Cave, France and Aphrodite head from Santa Barbara Museum of Art

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Mary Heebner, Venus XI (Cloth, dripping)
2013, Mixed media collage on Asoka paper, with fragment of photo-based print, powdered pigment, handmade cotton, rose tinted gampi paper and acrylic

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Mary Heebner, Venus XI (Cloth, dripping), 2013

Mixed media collage on Asoka paper, with fragment of photo-based print, powdered pigment, handmade cotton, rose tinted gampi paper and acrylic, 34 x 35 in. (86.4 x 88.9 cm)

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Mary Heebner, Venus XVI And on the eyes, (black sleep of night)
2013, Collage with pigment, acrylic, handmade paper and graphite on Stonehenge paper

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Mary Heebner, Venus XVI And on the eyes, (black sleep of night), 2013

Collage with pigment, acrylic, handmade paper and graphite on Stonehenge paper, 50 x 38 in. (127 x 96.5 cm)

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Mary Heebner, Venus II (Poetry is pure white)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko Natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag, and handmade paper

Mary Heebner, Venus III (One with violets in her lap)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including rose tinted gampi paper

Mary Heebner, Venus IV (Into desire I shall come)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including ochre pigmented flax paper

Mary Heebner, Venus V (And in longing, she bites her tender mind)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper

Mary Heebner, Venus VII (Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time)
2013, Mixed media collage on Torinoko natural paper, with fragments of photo-based print, rag and handmade paper including hand-marbles indigo on linen paper, and wax coated graphite tissue

Mary Heebner, Venus XI (Cloth, dripping)
2013, Mixed media collage on Asoka paper, with fragment of photo-based print, powdered pigment, handmade cotton, rose tinted gampi paper and acrylic

Mary Heebner, Venus XVI And on the eyes, (black sleep of night)
2013, Collage with pigment, acrylic, handmade paper and graphite on Stonehenge paper

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