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Monsterbet: An Aberrant Abecedarius | Heidi Brueckner
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Heidi Brueckner
Monsterbet: An Aberrant Abecedarius  

Press Release
In Conversation: Heidi Brueckner
Artist Statement
My work focuses mostly on cultural allegories and norms conveyed through a collage-like juxtaposition of figurative imagery, symbolism, and elaborate patterning. Often the figures personify the precarious, dark, grotesque, and sleazy side of human nature, subjects by which I am continually fascinated.


These topics seem to require, and in fact dictate, frontal, discomforting, and intrusive compositions. I revel in playing with bright color and pattern, tilted and flattened space, and distorted form in order to achieve this needed psychological expression and visual activity, but also to create an element of humor and fun.

A recent body of work, entitled Monsterbet, is a series of 26 oil and mixed media paintings, all 16” x 16”. The works are based on the traditional format of children’s alphabet books, but with a layer of social commentary. The subject may be a bit more benign and childlike, but I still strive to keep a gritty edge in the work. Each letter of the alphabet stands for an invented monster that has a particular quirk. Every two paintings form a rhyming couplet, which has given me the opportunity to play with language. They are meant to be silly and fanciful while simultaneously touching on some of my favored themes of human vice, morality, and fear. 
The series has also been published as “Monsterbet” the book, available for purchase at Etsy, Amazon, and at the website heidibrueckner.com.

Artist Bio
Heidi Brueckner is a Professor of Art at West Valley College in Saratoga, CA where she has taught painting, drawing, and design for over 20 years.
A native Californian, Brueckner studied at the University of Heidelberg and The Goethe Institute in Germany in the late 1980s. During this pivotal year, she visited the major museums of Europe and found herself heavily influenced artistically by 20th century German art.
Brueckner received a BA in Fine Art and a BA in Art History from University of California, Santa Cruz in 1991. She received an MFA in Painting from University of Kansas in 1997.
Professor Brueckner’s work has been shown at museums, galleries, colleges, and in publications nationally and internationally. She has received many awards and scholarships for her work.
In 2018, she published the book “Monsterbet”, based on a series of 26 satirical oil, acrylic, and mixed media paintings spoofing the format of a children’s alphabet book. The book is available for purchase at Etsy, Amazon, and at her website heidibrueckner.com.
Brueckner has won 12 first place awards among others in 20-21, which include the Italian International Prisma Art Prize and the Faber Birren Color Award, and has participated in over 100 juried shows. Upcoming solo exhibitions in 2022-24 include O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA (3 person); Women United Art Movement, Online; Crossing Arts Alliance in Brainerd, MN; Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY; Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick, MD; Grants Pass Museum of Art in Grants Pass, OR; and Johnathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, LA.
She currently lives and works in Oakland, California.


Inventory

1. Ahlmee
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
16" x 16"
$1500

2. Bumbreth
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

3. Crilod
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

4. Dearthly
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1,500

5. Eetmoch
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

6. Finglah
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

7. Grolub
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

8. Hackmuck
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

9. Ikyum
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

10. Jurnk
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

11. Krookid
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

12. Leepleek
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

13. Moedoe
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

14. Notlot
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

15. Oafus
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

16. Plux
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

17. Quikfiks
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

18. Rotsem
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

19. Sploit
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

20. Thwap
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

21. Ungrate
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

22. Voodol
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

23. Wafty
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

24. Xeno
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

25. Yernyers
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

26. Zzzcalnun
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas
​16" x 16"
$1500

Monsterbet books available: $40
Picture
Buckham Gallery is funded by the following organizations:
Generous support is provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. 

Our activities are sponsored in part by an award from the MICHIGAN ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL  and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS. 
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This program is sponsored by the Greater Flint Arts Council Share Art Genesee Grant Program made possible by the Genesee County Arts Education and Cultural Millage funds. Your tax dollars are at work!
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  • Exhibitions
    • January Solo Exhibitions >
      • Crawl Space | Guen Montgomery
      • Portraits of Home | Whitney Lea Sage
      • Interior Visions: Domestic Sphere | Stephanie Serpick
    • In Conversation
    • Exhibition Opportunities >
      • Small Works Exhibition
      • Teeth & Hair
      • PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
    • 2022-2023 Exhibition Schedule
    • Selected Past Exhibitions >
      • Early Winter Exhibitions >
        • Empty Road, Great Tornado - Emmett Merrill
        • Nice Things for Nice People - Kate Snow
        • Recent Work - Michael Melet
      • November Exhibition >
        • Buckham Artist Collaborators
        • On Screen: A Showcase
      • 101 Artists
      • Ojichaagwan Vessels- Guy Adamec
      • Caution: May Contain Nudity >
        • Donovan Entrekin
        • Friends
      • Summer Exhibitions >
        • Heidi Brueckner
        • Craig Hinshaw
        • Michael Weigman
      • Early Summer Exhibitions >
        • Barriers & Preservers | Margaret Davis
        • Endless Endeavors | Benjamin Muñoz
      • BIPOC is The Theme! >
        • BIPOC Artists for Feature Exhibition
        • Viewing Room
      • Late Winter Exhibitions >
        • Dialectics and the Decommodified: The Spectres of Capital- Morgan Craig
        • Textures of the Southwest- Robert Huebel
        • All the Pretty Little Horses- Chris Waters
      • Small Talk >
        • Viewing Room
      • December Exhibitions >
        • Horizons | Emily Legleitner
        • Indexing Schizophrenia | Diane Zeeuw
        • Seeking Solace | Rebecca Zeiss
      • Black & White
      • Entropy >
        • Viewing Room
      • Late Summer Exhibitions >
        • Hyper-Tension: Matthew Owen Wead
        • Nigrescence Comics: Kenish Magwood
      • Summer Exhibitions >
        • Beastly Luster: Kelly Boehmer
        • No Dark In Sight: Bill Davis
        • Penchant: Devan Horton
      • Early Summer Exhibitions >
        • Selvage: Jim Arendt
        • At Home: Candace Compton Pappas
      • Subtle Shifts
      • Disrupted Realism
      • Late Winter Exhibitions >
        • Chad Erpelding: Gains and Losses
        • Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay: Appropriated Figure-Grounds
        • Jordan Vinyard: Summary of A Few Volts
      • JANUARY 2021 >
        • Karen Milito
        • Nancy Pennell
        • Linda Lou Woodruff
      • December 2020: United By One >
        • United By One: Allen
        • United By One: LaBret Einstein
        • United By One: Haylett
        • United By One: Hershman
      • November 2020: BAC Exhibitions >
        • A Climate Of Change: Viewing Room
        • Shadows: 2020 Buckham Print Exchange
      • October 2020: Serious Play >
        • Serious Play: Andy Hill
        • Serious Play: Timothy Kranz
        • Serious Play: Sifus J Thompson
      • September 2020: Dear Memory, >
        • Aj Cooke: Fragmented Place
        • Michele Leclaire
        • Lauren Scavo-Fulk
      • August 2020: Ineffable Benedictions >
        • Matthew Osmon: Private Insurrection
        • 0591: People First
        • Rachel Singel: Metamorphosis
      • July 2020: Verisimilitude
      • Feb. 2020: Eros and Thanatos >
        • Eros & Thanatos: Award Winners
      • Jan. 2020
      • 2019 Exhibitions
    • Art Money
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      • 2022 Smallidge Lecture
      • Jan. 10, 2020: Artist Talks with Ardea Thurston-Shaine and Dominique Chastenet de Gary
      • Tommy Mintz, Nov. 2019
      • 2019 Smallidge Lecture
      • June 2019: Panel Discussion with John Dempsey, Guy Adamec, and Amy Gibas
      • May 4, 2019- Artist Talk with Stephen Halko and Nick Reszetar
      • April 13, 2019 ​Artist Talk and Deviant Life Drawing Session with Jeanine Leclaire
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