Heidi Reynolds is a creative experimenter based in Lynnfield, MA. She earned her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts where she focused on video, performance, and installation. Her work investigates the interaction of the inner and outer spaces of memory and connection through community engagement, public interventions, and activism. She approaches art as an ever-evolving process. She is passionate about engaging with the community through her art and believes in bringing art out of the gallery to create conversations in the places we sometimes least expect. Heidi considers her visual vocabulary her first language and hopes to connect with others through her work. Heidi teaches art in the Boston area and founded Re-create studio, an art studio in Lynnfield, MA.
Artist Statement
My work deals with memory, our migrating response to trauma and its lasting repercussions, and the subsequent examination of past, present, and future facets of our lives. Experiencing traumatic change disrupts our comfortable patterns and feelings of stability. Our notions of permanence are skewed, and a subsequent critical examination occurs, eliciting questions about memory as well as our current reality. Is it possible to disentangle a single experience from our web of consciousness? How does our changing experience and morphing identity affect our perception of past events, both traumatic and not? How do we both anchor ourselves and move forward through the turbid present? I also take great interest in exploring these concepts through our connected shared experiences – both large and small. Exploring vulnerability and our need for community through playful actions can create a common experience; catalyzing healing. My work is often influenced by animals, biological systems, and the interconnectedness of the natural world,and are expressed through sculpture, installation, video, painting, and photography.
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