5/18—6/8, 2025
What form does negative space take?
Tuning between presence and absence, Deborah Hede’s Shadow Shadow moves through sites of contingency, like the archive, to trace the unknown through chance, fracture, and drift.
Interview with Deborah Hede
Untitled, 1990
Ink and graphite on paper
24 x 19 inches
Shadow Landscape II, 2003
Charcoal, graphite
39-1/2 x 27-1/2 inches
Shadow photo series
Digital reproduction
Dimensions vary
Untitled, 1946
Charcoal on board
17 ⅝ x 11 ⅜ inches
a space surrounding an interval of time, 2025
Wire, bandaging, plaster, adhesive
28 x 109 x 17 inches
Shadow photo series
Digital reproduction
Dimensions vary
The Place without Shadow, (undated)
Silver gelatin print; unique
4 ⅝ x 3 ⅝ inches
Framed: 8 ⅜ x 6 ⅝ x 1 3/16 inches
Dream of the White Place, Abiquiu, 2000
Monotype
30 x 22 inches
Untitled, c. 1970s
Charcoal on paper
23 ⅞ x 17 x ⅞ inches
Shadow Landscape I, 2003
Charcoal, graphite, white pencil
39-1/2 x 27-1/2 inches
Shadow photo series
Digital reproduction
Dimensions vary
Night Impression, Tesuque, 1999
Charcoal on paper
11-1/4" x 16-¼”
Night Shadows, 1999
Charcoal on paper
11-1/4" x 16-¼”
Untitled, 1947
Ink on paper
8 1/4 x 10 3/4 inche
Photography: Paul Salveson