Heidi Leverty Fine Art Photography

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Biography

Born in Merano, Italy and now living in Toronto, Heidi became a photographer because the medium best worked to give voice to her particular view of the world. While maintaining a full time career she enrolled in OCAD where she graduated with honours, majoring in photography. As a result she began utilizing the camera to explore the world around her.

Starting with her familiar surroundings, she constantly searched for the new and unexpected. Her first photographic series, People ( Anna & the Gang and Life) is a summation of the successive stages of Life. These photographs dwell on the transformations of the flesh, studying the changes in the bodily fabric as they are observed in the mirror.

In her second series, Dunes, flesh, sensuality and metamorphosis are again the underlying subject matter of her pictures, along with transubstantiation, in which the sand becomes flesh and takes on voluptuous, feminin forms undulating in the wind. This exploration continued with Sand Stories, in which she captured figures that emerge from the waves of white volcanic sand.

In her current body of work, Outbox, the focus is on one particular moment in the life-cycle of everyday objects - the passage from refuse or trash to recycled material. These materials of paper, metal, plastic and fabric, shaped by the treatment they have undergone become unique works through her perspective, sculptural forms with an intense beauty. What appears to be without value is in fact a source of inspiration, the unique and extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary. Her images are a product of chance, caught in the transient moment in their life , an ephemeral state between original use and new purpose. When most would consider these throwaways to be in their least desirable states, she causes us to reconsider and appreciate these objects anew, thus adding another layer of recycling to their lives.

Heidi is ahead of her time: while the focus on recycled material as subject is now more pervasive, she has made this her primary subject for over 7 years. Her art lies in capturing beauty in the discarded remnants of our lives. Through her lens recyclable, squished conveyor belts imply a reclining nude, accordion layered cardboard boxes or compressed metal cans suggest the linear vertical modern paintings of the 60's & 70's.

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Solo Showings
2007, Outbox, Proof Gallery, Distillery District, Toronto, Canada
2007, Outbox, Rotunda Gallery, City Hall, Kitchener, Canada
2006, Out of the Blue, Gallery 201, Toronto, Canada
2006, Tincarnation, Galerie Fusion, Toulouse, France
2001, Tales of the Sea, Elevator Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001, Tales of the Sea, Galerie Fusion, Toulouse, France
1997, Anna and the Gang, Galerie Im Steghof, Naturno, Italy
1996, Anna and the Gang, Ryerson Galery, Toronto, Canada
1991, Portrait of a Marriage, Gallery 76, Toronto, Canada
Group Showings
2009, Gallery 44, Contact, Toronto, Canada
2009, The Artist Project, Toronto, Canada
2007, Her story, Online exhibition, “Best in Show”, Manhattan Arts International, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2007, Indwelling, Umbrella Arts, Copper Union Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2006, A month of Photography, Mississauga, Oakville and Brampton Photo Festival, Canada
2005, A sensual Landscape, Gallery 201, Toronto, Canada
2005, Tincarnation & From Paper to Paper, The Fine Art of Recycling, Toronto Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, Canada
2002, A sensual landscape, Jury Award – Best in Photography. Artfocus, Artist’s Show, Rotunda, Metro Hall, Toronto, Canada
Corporate Collections
The Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada
Cecconi Simone, Toronto, ON, Canada
Minto Midtown Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada
Metropolis Development Company, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
Figure 3 Design, Totonto, ON, Canada
Metro Waste, Toronto, ON, Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Corporate leasing program, Canada
Cannon Design, Toronto, ON, Canada
Publications
2009 Feature Artists Profile - Canadian House & Home Magazine, Canada
2008 Metropolitan Home Magazine, U.S.A.
2001 Canadian House & Home Magazine, Canada
2000 Canadian House & Home Magazine Canada
1997 Kultur Magazine, Italy
1996 Now Magazine, Canada
1996 Mix Magazine, Canada
Radio | TV Interviews
2006 CBC Radio Canada
1996 City TV Canada
1996 CIUT Radio , Canada
Grants
2008 Ontario Arts Council
2006 Toronto Arts Council
1995 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Grant

Heidi Leverty has been exhibiting continuously since the early 90’s and her work is included in many private collections in Canada, France, Italy and the United States.