This body of work is from a continuing series based on recontextualizing information.  In our current web-inflamed age, there is a level of over-saturation with the availability of information and images.  I experiment with ways to reorganize and reinterpret found imagery.  My agenda is purely aesthetic. There is beauty in charts, graphs, and other visual detritus that accumulates. My goal is for this informational detritus to take on new roles based on contexts and juxtapositions.

Heidi McGurrin specializes in Fine Art, Commercial Display, Weddings and Portraiture. For the past few years she has been teaching as a Professional Artist in the Schools for the Arts Council of Monterey County and giving her own private workshops on creativity, using journal and collage imagery to create individual personal stories. Her work has been featured in Books, Magazines, and on album covers locally and nationally. Her photographs have been published in 'Steinbeck Country Revisited' 2000, and 'Coyote' by Richard Miller. Her illustrations accompany the stories in the 'Rocky Point Murders' published October, 2001. Her ‘Havana Dream’ book has just been published on Blurb.com. For the last 31 years she has been photographing Big Sur, and the Central Coast of California, the Southwest and the Southern hemisphere. Cuba, Haiti and Mexico. She has worked with several well known photographers including Brett Weston, Cole Weston, Al Weber, and Morley Baer.

Heidi’s photography has been exhibited in Galleries and Museums throughout the Central Coast and Washington D.C. She recently finished a commission for the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel Valley. She has exhibited at the Monterey Peninsula Museum, the Carl Cherry Foundation, the Center for Photographic Art, and the Ansel Adams Gallery, to name a few.

She has a strong interest in Mexico, Cuba, and Haiti from where she has recently returned with a rich collection. Her images evoke the time and spirit of the currently unsettled states, and endangered lifestyle of their people. Heidi McGurrin is becoming known for her Cuban, Haitian and Mexican work. She has been honored to present her Cuban Exhibition work on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. In May of 1998 she was invited by Congressman Sam Farr to present her collection of Cuban photography in the the Cannon House Rotunda. Her life thoughts and travel impressions were written into the Congressional Record by Congress. In September 2011, she published her Cuban book ‘Havana Dream’ on www.Blurb.com.

Heidi photographs tell stories that make you feel the rhythm of our planet and helps us understand it better. Her images are about being strong and being in one’s heart. The timeless beauty of her photography surrounds us and makes us feel the infinity of life itself.

Subjects in my art are thought provoking, confrontational and deal with subjects that most artists avoid . I present some questions in my work but no answers.My work is sexual from a male perspective, spiritual because I am, political because it is all around us and artfully presented with a rash of movement, energy and emotion. Through a display of complimentary color, cubist abstraction and surrealism the viewer connects  to the image/s

If you are thinking of starting a new religion, I may have the art for you. Or maybe you are goth , check me out . Or maybe you like something that the has elements of Old School thinking with a contemporary feel that's timeless, then check me out.  I am new , I am old and if you look, I mean really look, perhaps you will see more, much more than you imagined.

I will be showing new work on paper and canvas, along with a jacquard tapestry or two, at the upcoming open studio event at The Point.  My background in fabric design and my life-long involvement with fine art come together in these works.

Photography allows for the exploration and alternate perception of our daily environment. What touches me most, is seeing the transformation of a priori insignificant objects into meaningful and beautiful ones. My pictures are the result of a wandering and wondering state of mind. My interest expanded to other visual art practices: collages and paintings. In the collages that can be “classic” (paper and glue) or digital, I can pick colors, shapes, models, objects, sceneries. This allows me to use the images made by other artists and incorporate them into mine. This is a common artistic approach, in which the art of someone else resonates in us and can be revisited. I also started painting, experimenting with different types of paints: water color, acrylics, oil paints, inks. My paintings represent sceneries inspired by cities and seashores or ideas summarized by symbols. As I view photography as creating a picture from multiple “outsides”, I view painting as creating one from multiple “insides”. While most of my work is photography, some images are the results of several ones. Combining photography, sometimes images from magazines and paintings through digital processing allows to apply and discover in a fast way various changes a picture can go through, and the different meanings it can convey. By assembling several images, I summarize in one, emotions, stories inspired by personal events.