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.

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Much of my work comes from the process of solving challenges that I set up for myself. For example, what would happen if you attached nail after nail together, or what will it be if I put these nuts together, or can I knit wire? The outcome of this is my work were I transform everyday materials into new organic forms. My materials range from hardware, railroad ties, pipes, old parts, wire, lumber, recycled glass, bone, mattress springs, clothing, yarns, beads, thread, flowers, twigs, basically anything. For me everything is an art material and everything has its own beauty. I want to rearrange the world I see, to look at things from a different perspective, and to find new relationships between things. Much of my work then has some kind of repeating element. This repetition creates a rhythm, and in turn, creates a quiet space of calm I so love. My art happens when I put the problem, the material, and the calm together. The results are my sculptures.

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.