HEATHER ADELS

 

Heather Adels

 

Heather Adels grew up at the base of a small sort of mountain in Princeton, Massachusetts.  There she battled tree giants and babbling brooks with her four legged sidekicks; Bogi and Ebony.In 1993, pencil in hand, and leaving behind her four leggers, Heather moved off tostudy and make art at Monserrat College of Art where she earned a BFA.After graduating, she took a long walk and a look at everything around her.Beginning again at her parent’s house, she tried many new and interesting things. She took courses in acting and ceramics but wound up in a musical. She tried typing, filleting fish and growing out her body hair. Shedding her stage makeup and leg hair, she decided to return to the home of her school, Beverly, MA.  Here’s was happened there: Some painting in oils; Cat hair; A group show in Hamilton, MA; More oil painting; 1st solo show, Gloucester, MA; Still more oil painting. In 2003 Heather moved to Somerville where she tried more new and interesting things, including successfully making puppets, unsuccessfully trying to direct a puppet show, and feeding nuts to the locals.  In the fall of 2004 Heather returned to painting, only this time in acrylic paint using very tiny brushes she made from old squirrel tails. Since then Heather has shown her work at Mingo Gallery in Beverly, The Zeitgeist in Cambridge, Art Attack in Somerville, Front St Café in Salem and now here at the Outpost in Brockton. Heather is currently reading about and is obsessed with lotus shoes, look for their voice in her work.