Statement
Color and Light
I have been working on this series for several years. Referencing the landscape of the Big Sur Coast of California I reduce the experience of living on the Central Coast to the elements of color, light, motion and simplified form.
The study of color came several years into the practice of painting. I started my creative life as a black and white photographer and viewed the world in shades of gray, the contrast of light and dark values forming the skeleton of the composition. Color, while I was learning to paint was seen in terms of those same light and dark values. As my method evolved I became interested in color for its own sake, especially for the exploration of its emotional impact.
More important than color is light. We conduct our daily activities according to its presence or absence. Cyclical in nature, the quantity changes over the course of a day and more broadly, throughout the seasons. Thoughts about illuminations recur repeatedly in our speech. We often want to "see something in a different light," someone or something comes into existence when they are "seen in the light of day," we hope for "the light at the end of the tunnel." Sunlight is consumed directly by plants and indirectly by animals. I have a personal relationship with light first as a photographer and then as a medical professional working with laser machines. I live in a rural area of the Big Sur Coast. Besides painting I spend my days gardening, clearing brush and tending to farm animals. The weather and environmental conditions are extremely important to my daily existence. Is the sun too hot to carry things up and down the hill? Where and what time does it set? What is the temperature and how will it change the consistency of my paint?
The paintings in the Color and Light series reference the light of the California Coast. Tiny water particles in the atmosphere disperse the light which creates diffuse images. The horizon line of the ocean is usually indistinct with one color seamlessly blending into another. The quality of light has a complex effect on how we experience the world around us. The combination of light and color evokes a deep emotional response in the viewer.
Heidi Hybl was born in Chicago. She grew up wandering the galleries of the Art Institute. She studied art at the University of California at Santa Cruz and Monterey Peninsula College. Her early professional life was in the field of medicine; biology continues to inform her work. Hybl has had many solo exhibits. She has shown her work in juried and group exhibits and received awards. She has taught art to children and adults and served on the Board of Directors of Artists' Equity and the Big Sur Arts Initiative. She interviewed artists on Public Radio. She currently paints full time in her studio in Big Sur.
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Soft Focus, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
2017 Distant Hills, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
2015 Abstract Landscapes, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
2014 Color and Light Revisited, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
2012 Color and Light, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
2011 Plant Forms and Patterns, Marjorie Evans Gallery, Carmel CA
Darwin Evolved, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
2010 Celebrating Darwin, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
2009 New Work, Carmel Art Association
2008 Plant Forms, Carmel Art Association
2006 Landscape Abstracted, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
2005 California Light, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
2004 Falling, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Monterey CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Abstract Expressions, juried exhibit of abstract art, Judges Pick, Red Bluff Gallery
Featured Artist, Artsy Shark, online exhibit
Strictly Abstract, group exhibit, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
Catalog Exhibit, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
Datsuzoku, two person exhibit, Carmel Art Association
2022 Catalog Exhibit, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
Kanso, two person exhibit, Carmel Art Association
2021 8th Annual Exhibit, Abstract Catalyst, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland OR
National Association of Women Artists, Annual Exhibit, New York NY
Artistonish, contemporary art magazine, juried
The 2nd Half, Laguna Beach Gallery, Laguna Beach CA
2020 Abstract Sanctuary (7th Annual), juried, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland OR
Small Works and Beyond, juried, National Association of Women Artists, New York NY
2019 National Association of Women Artist, Members Exhibit, New York NY
Seen and Unseen, Big Sur Artists, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
Orange Has Its Place, two-person exhibit, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
2018 Sea and Sky, Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park NJ
Immersed in Abstraction, juried, The Ellington White Contemporary, Fayettville NC
Big Things in Small Spaces, juried, New Rochelle NY
National Association of Women Artists, Members Exhibit, New York NY
Publication, Lifelong Learning Catalog, Cal State Monterey Bay, CA
Transitory Light, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
2017 Small Works, juried, NAWA Gallery, New York NY
National Association of Women Artists, Members Exhibit, New York NY
2016 Art in Public Places, Santa Cruz County Arts Collective, Santa Cruz CA
2015 Repetitions and Patterns, juried, Fredricksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredricksburg VA
Juried Auction, Arts Council for Monterey County, Monterey CA
Abstract Landscapes, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
Luminous Color, two person exhibit, Shimo Gallery, Sacramento CA
2014 In the Footsteps of History, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey CA
36th Annual Paper in Particular National Juried Exhibition, Columbia College, Columbia MO
Small Works, National Association of Women Artists, juried, Honorable Mention, New York NY
Luminous Color, two person Exhibit, Felix Kulpit Gallery, Santa Cruz CA
Annual Exhibit, National Association of Women Artists, New York NY
Abstraction, juried exhibit, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz CA
2013 From the Board, Board of Directors Exhibit, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
National Association of Women Artists, Members Exhibit, New York NY
2012 Small Works, juried, NAWA Gallery, New York NY, Bertha Passel Greenblat Award
2011 Les Femmes Artistes Vernissage, juried, The Armory Center, West Palm Beach FL
New Members, National Association of Women Artists, New York NY
2010 Allied Arts National Juried Exhibit, Richmond VA
18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, New York NY
Forms in Motion, National Juried Exhibit, Fredricksburg Center for the Arts, Fredricksburg VA, Honorable Mention
2009 Paintings in Oil and Collage, Carmel Art Association
2008 National Juried Competitive, Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, Long Beach NJ
American Summer Exhibition, juried, Kingston Gallery, Boston MA
Paper in Particular, juried exhibit, Columbia College, Columbia MO
2007 Sticks and Stones, Nature Abstracted, Lauryn Taylor Gallery, Carmel CA
Summer Postcards, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Monterey CA
2006 Big Sur, A Place Apart, juried, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove CA
2005 Frond Memories, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Monterey CA
Miniatures, Studio One, Big Sur CA
2004 Obsessions, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Monterey CA
Surface as Subject, Carmel Art Association, Carmel CA
Representation:
Ugallery
San Fransicso CA USA
Carmel Art Association
Carmel CA USA
ArtFloor
Paris France
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