A new show goes up May 6 at Studio 53 featuring the new artwork of gallery owners Heidi Seidelhuber and Terry Seaman of Seattle and Boothbay Harbor. In 2010 the couple purchased the property at 53 Townsend Avenue. 

Heidi Seidelhuber will have 30 new paintings, including the series “Footbridge Relics Revisited” and a collection of amusing portraits and self-portraits.

Heidi paints from the vantage point of the water line, learning intimately about her subject and the paint. She utilizes subjects common to the world of work, developing strong compositions and a sense of light.

Heidi knows about work viscerally, and it shows. She has managed steel fabrication jobs since 1975. She recently followed up on ideas she crafted in steel circa 1980 by collaborating with steel workers Vasiliy Melguy and Miklos Toth.

"Got my home in my hand" refers to the stress and resignation of putting down roots in more than one place. Originally it referred to Chicago and Seattle; currently it refers to Seattle and Boothbay Harbor Maine.

Heidi has a B.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), M.F.A from Art Institute of Chicago, has studied at Cooper Union and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was a founding member of Artemisia Gallery in Chicago.

Then there’s Terry, who’ll tell you he’s a “2-dimensional guy who claims to not have a 3-dimensional bone in his body,” but after you check out his work, you won’t believe him. Terry's work is based on mathematical progressions, proportional relationships and rhythmic sequences often finding there way to the canvas as interpretations of classical compositions. Seriously. 

A little trivia for you: This isn’t Heidi and Terry’s first gallery in Boothbay Harbor. In the late 1960s, the two ran the Big Ugly Kid on the Boothbay Harbor waterfront.

For more on Studio 53 visit www.studio53fineart.com.