For her exhibition, Reflected in Real Time, Anna Hepler will transform the gallery into a workspace and create, on-site, a floor sized woodcut and monumental inflatable sculpture—each part reflecting the image of the other. The exhibition will feature the process of making, rather than showcasing, finished work and will close with a display of Hepler’s efforts. This project will activate the museum space by drawing attention to the uncertainty and labor of the creative process as it unfolds in real time.

Hepler’s work grapples with inversion—inflatable volumes that collapse into a plane, chaotic details that coalesce into an ordered whole, fluctuation that oscillates to stasis and back—without an attempt to reconcile the whole.

Hepler has been based in Portland, Maine since 2001. She received a BA from Oberlin College in 1992, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. She has spent time living and working in the Netherlands, South Korea, Cyprus, and most recently in Italy, exhibiting nationally and internationally. Hepler’s forthcoming project, Bloom, will open in May of 2011 at Suyama Space in Seattle, WA.