Image courtesy of Heather Bird Harris.
HEATHER BIRD HARRIS
Heather Bird Harris is an artist living in New Orleans, Louisiana. She paints abstract landscapes using earth pigments from clay and deconstructed bricks found in southern Louisiana / Bulbancha. Her work explores parallels between humanity and nature, women and the earth, and our past and present relationship to the land.
Her recent work focuses on the throughlines between Louisiana’s history of injustice and its current environmental and human crises. Her paintings explore the range of our experiences in relation to a singular but layered place, highlighting the history that has been baked into the land, and articulating the tension between natural beauty and human darkness.
Heather Bird Harris graduated from Skidmore College in 2009 with a degree in Art History and Studio Art and earned a master’s degree in education leadership. As an educator, Heather also writes anti-racist history curriculum for schools in Louisiana, which is a lens that deeply informs her art. Heather lives in New Orleans with her partner Josh and their two toddlers, Jade and Hazel.
Image courtesy of Heather Bird Harris
Image courtesy of Heather Bird Harris.