Heather Calderon Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) artist
I am originally from Longmont, CO with strong family ties to Albuquerque, NM. I grew up with two passions, from an early age; music and art. After studying classical piano for 12 years, at age 16, I decided to pursue art only, leaving music as a hobby. After holding various waitress jobs, at age 24, I found a job, copying another artist's work on needlepoint designs, It was through this job, I learned how to paint. I took my new skill of painting and began creating my own pieces. It was in 2006, at age 27 that skeletons began making an appearance in my work. Beginning with a small skeleton tucked in a corner of a landscape, skeletons quickly became the subject of my paintings. After creating a series of skeleton paintings in 2010, I was given the title of "Day of the Dead" artist. It is a combination of reasons, the fascination with skeletons; the earliest being a childhood experience when my face was x-rayed because of chronic sinus infections and I saw my own skull. In 2011, I relocated to South Florida with my children to join the love of my life. I currently resided in Margate, FL and I am happily married.
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A 'Skeleton Garden' grows in Hollywood
Heather Calderon's bare-bones paintings go on view at Gallery 2014.
By Phillip Valys, SouthFlorida.com 9:57 a.m. EDT, October 28, 2014
In the paintings of Heather Calderon, skeletons teach math in antiquated classrooms, their gumless mouths puckered around pointed teeth. The bony characters are also wily schoolchildren who toss paper airplanes while the teacher's back is turned, or wear dunce caps in the time-out corner when they're caught. Calderon's skeletons are busy dentists with square, low-rimmed eyeglasses in bright examination rooms, gripping their skeletal patient's canines with antique tweezers. Her skeletons even become Frida Kahlo when Calderon wants to make associations with the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead, or Napoleon Dynamite eating quesadillas when Calderon wants to be cheeky.
And if you meet the Coral Springs painter, expect her to imagine what you'd look like as a skeleton... more
Heather Calderon's bare-bones paintings go on view at Gallery 2014.
By Phillip Valys, SouthFlorida.com 9:57 a.m. EDT, October 28, 2014
In the paintings of Heather Calderon, skeletons teach math in antiquated classrooms, their gumless mouths puckered around pointed teeth. The bony characters are also wily schoolchildren who toss paper airplanes while the teacher's back is turned, or wear dunce caps in the time-out corner when they're caught. Calderon's skeletons are busy dentists with square, low-rimmed eyeglasses in bright examination rooms, gripping their skeletal patient's canines with antique tweezers. Her skeletons even become Frida Kahlo when Calderon wants to make associations with the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead, or Napoleon Dynamite eating quesadillas when Calderon wants to be cheeky.
And if you meet the Coral Springs painter, expect her to imagine what you'd look like as a skeleton... more
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