Anna Hepler
My work, though primarily sculptural, finds its origin in the transformative process of printmaking; the surprise of how each impression retains a specific material presence — a woodblock shows its woodgrain, a metal plate, its smooth hard edges. What remains are images, like ghosts, that describe the absence of things.
From this observation, one begins to see all objects and materials as holding the potential to generate a secondary image, to show some aspect of physical presence in absence — each has its shadow, and the possibility for transformation.
Anna Hepler Edition of 3, Drypoint on Hannamule 13.25 x 15.25" Platonic 2016 $400 unframed
Anna Hepler Edition of 3, Drypoint on Hannamule 10.5 x 9" Curl, 2016 $200 - one available
Anna Hepler Edition of 3, Drypoint on Hannamule 10.5 x 9" Leaf, 2016 $200 unframed
Anna Hepler Edition of 3, Drypoint on Hannamule 13.25 x 15.25" Remnant 2 2016 sold
Holdfast, 2021 lithograph on white paper 31.25" x 23.75", numbered edition (two available) unframed $500
Anna Hepler, Palm, 2019, pressure-print on paper edition of 5, 8.5" x 10” one available $650. framed
Montello 5, 2021, woodcut on kozo, approx 15" x 18" framed, $600
Montello 6, 2021, woodcut on kozo, approx 15" x 18" framed, $600
Anna Hepler lives and works in both MA and Maine. She received a BA from Oberlin College in 1992, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. She has spent time living and working in the Netherlands, South Korea, Cyprus, and Italy, exhibiting nationally and internationally. Hepler was a Henry Luce Foundation fellow in South Korea for one year, has received support from the Artist Resource Trust, the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Maine Arts Commission in 2012. In 2017, Hepler was named the USA BARR Fellow and awarded $50,000 through the United States Artists Foundation.
Anna Hepler’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA, the Portland Museum of Art, The Roswell Museum of Art, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC, University of Maine Museum of Art, Open Satellite in Bellvue, WA, Suyama Space in Seattle, WA, The Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM, and Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM. Her work is included in major public collections including National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Tate Gallery, London, England, and the Portland Museum of Art, ME.