(HACKENSACK, NJ) -- Riverside Gallery presents Marsha Heller Solo Exhibition from March 13 to March 25, 2023. Marsha Heller ventures in new and exciting ways into the realm of abstraction and impressionist-expressionist hybrid experimentation with her new body of works. The new visual language for Heller breaks into the surface of the outer appearance of things and finds the essence of the phenomenon or experience – of light, color, spirituality, sensuality, and existence.

There will be an opening reception on March 18th from 4:00pm to 6:00pm.

Heller’s paintings cease to be landscapes or still life’s in a conventional sense as the perspectival space is mostly flattened into an abstract space without a vanishing point or a point of reference. Yet the space that exists in an abstract sense behind the door of the painting is imbued with a sense of depth and presence through light and color.

Mountainside / 40 x 30 / Acrylic on Canvas

Honesty is a key trait of the artist who does not make effort towards any superficial exaggeration but who is fully committed to keenly expressing what she observes in terms of color relationships, balance, harmony, and sensations of sensuality and spirituality that coincide. These are contradictory forces and inclinations of the artist, who finds both sensuous and spiritual meaning in the colors that she sees and the paints that she applies onto the canvas.

Heller’s New York exhibitions include the Cork Gallery in Lincoln Center and St. Peter’s Church in the Citicorp Building. In her home state of New Jersey, Montclair State University Gallery One featured Heller in a solo exhibition. She has been the recipient of various juried prizes, and Artspeak Magazine has described her work as “colors (creating) a shimmering surface….Warm and cool, light and dark, they dance around the canvas until flowers, bushes or trees emerge from a tapestry of marks. The seductive mosaic of color is satisfying in itself.”

Heller’s work was chosen to represent New Jersey in the permanent collection of PNC Bank in Pittsburgh, and is also included in numerous private collections. Her encaustic painting, “Emerging Spring,” was selected for inclusion in Marcie Cooperman’s seminal textbook, “Color: How to Use It,” published in 2013 by the educational publisher Pearson in coordination with Parsons/The New School of Design. In addition to Ceres Gallery, Heller has shown at the Yaacov Heller Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida,  Portage Hill Gallery in Mayville, NY, Chester Gallery in Chester, Connecticut and Harvest Gallery in Dennis, Massachusetts.

Spring Fever / 30 x 30 / Acrylic on Canvas

The Riverside Gallery is Located in The Shops at Riverside (Riverside Square) at One Riverside Square, Suite 201 in Hackensack, New Jersey. Hours: open 10:00am - 7:00pm Monday -Saturday, closed Sunday. 

Riverside Gallery is a 21st century pioneer in bringing talented international artists and exhibiting diverse mediums of art. The Gallery is dedicated to opening a channel for both established and new up-and-coming artists to express their visions, and for clients to experience and appreciate art. Its prestige and reputation stems from special art collections and successful past exhibitions of works by well renowned artists. The Gallery is located at the heart of the art community, only a few minutes from New York City. Artists that have exhibited their work at Riverside Gallery take pride in the fact that their work have been exhibited in a forum that highly values uniqueness, creativity, and talent.