Alexander/Heath Contemporary
is pleased to announce
Progress, not Perfection
an exhibition by artists…
Beverly & Roxanne Hettig
October 3 through October 28, 2025
OPENING RECEPTIONS:
Art-by-Night Friday, October 3rd, 2025, 5-9 pm
Art-by-Night Friday, November 7th, 2025, 5-9 pm
CLOSING RECEPTION:
Friday, November 28th, 2025, 6-9 pm
Opening October 3, 2025
Beverly Hettig
I’ve been folding various sorts of materials since I was young, starting with gum wrapper chains. Utilizing resources that are recycled from book sales, garage sales, or discarded items just makes sense environmentally. It amazes me how modifying a straight edge with a fold, cut or layer can give it an entirely different property or even mood. What was mundane becomes a focal point. The end result an object transformed into something entirely different yet retaining some of its original form.
Whether it be folded shapes positioned in a quilt like pattern or architectural cut-out pages from old atlases, assembled to make small pamphlets of maps; when these are positioned on geological survey maps, it speaks to my desire for symmetry and order as well my wonder at the unpredictable beauty of the Earth’s surface with its geographic features; roads, railroads, rivers, streams, lakes, and mountains.
Roxanne Hettig
When I got sober early last year, my creative side along with the rest of my heart, mind, body, and soul went into shock. I was afraid I would not be able to make art anymore. An Art Therapist, Victoria Laneri, suggested I try to make a circle each day for a week and fill it up, or not. I decided to do this for a year in my all or nothing fashion.
During this process, I learned how to show up for myself and that I could still be creative but it was even more meaningful because I was clearly present. It helped fill gaps in my days where I was so uncomfortable I thought I would crawl out of my skin. It seemed to silence the never-ending negative thoughts that circle my trained mind after years of drug use and cognitive distortions.
These circles gave me purpose when I felt I had none and taught me progress, not perfection.
The exhibition is on display through November 28, 2025.
Access is available during exhibition hours or by appointment only:
Contact Ed Hettig:
hettig@alexander-heath.com or text 607.226.2473.