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Artist Exhibitions:
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Artist Galleries:
Chastain Studio Lofts
107 S Main Street, Lancaster,
SC
803-804-3659
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
Dr. Andreas Nissen and Mrs.
Leslie Nissen, Savannah,
Georgia, USA
Mr. and Mrs. David Saxman,
Brunswick, Georgia, USA
Mrs. Kristina Dalbudak,
Wilmington Island, Georgia,
USA
Ms. Angela Vaughn, Lancaster,
South Carolina, USA
Ms. Jenny Hartley, Lancaster,
South Carolina, USA
Mrs. Mica Jones, Kershaw,
South Carolina, USA
Mr. Rodney Hammond, Lancaster,
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Artist Statement for Heather Teasley
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Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, I had no other choice but to become an artist. I was surrouned by other artists, both in my family and in my social circle. Art has always been my passion - even as a small child. In 2005, when my husband and I moved to South Carolina, I found it hard to fit in to the local artist scene. This was depressing.
However, as my art work evolved from creating paintings to creating assemblage art, I found my niche. By day, I am a systems administrator and graphic designer for a local media company. However, on weekends and at night,I scavenge the countryside for the rusted, broken and unwanted. I look to heal these lost objects like one would heal a broken heart.
I find that my transition into assemblage art takes me back to my previous life in Savannah. In Savannah, everything that I knew and loved had a history... my history... my ancestor's history. Yet, moving to a foreign place whose streets are not donned with cobblestones or lined with wrought iron fences, left me feeling empty.
I began searching for my raison d'etre in this little town, but instead of finding reasons, I found objects. I found rusted tools, tarnished silverware, lost keys and broken dolls. I also found old pictures from another's family and postcards sent to a first love from across the ocean. I felt that it was my duty to tell the story of each treasure.
When I created my first assemblage art piece, I pulled together things that I knew. I found an old skeleton key and a glass door knob that looked like the ones in my childhood home. I found a piece of old heart-of-pine flooring with an intriguing jagged edge. I came across an old window sill and a few panes of glass. I kept finding these small pieces of Savannah in my new South Carolina home.
The tangled pieces of my life that were frayed by the move started to come back together. I started becoming whole again.
I hope that as you view my art, you feel the same connection with these found items and forgotten people that I feel when I build these small shrines in their honor. Perhaps my art fills a dusty, darkened place in your heart.
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