Forever Ten (Plastic in Paradise series)
This work is part of the larger series Plastic in Paradise, in which the artist explores the complex relationship between the natural and manmade environments. In her carefully staged compositions, which are influenced by nostalgic memory, art history, and popular culture, are designed to resemble candid snapshots — truth and fiction are woven together to create a narrative of both a real and an imagined world, where helium balloons compete with coconut palms and nature intersects with the factory-made.
About the Artist
Heidi Bassett Blair
b. 1969
Born in Toronto, Heidi Bassett Blair has a BA from McGill University and an MA from New York University; she also studied at Parsons Paris, where she worked as assistant to video-digital artist Peter Campus. Her work has won several prestigious awards, including the Jack Goodman Award for Art and Technology and American Photo’s Portraits and People award. Her work appears in many private, corporate, and museum collections and is represented by the Benrubi Gallery, New York. In 2015, NGCI held Plastic in Paradise: Scenes of Real Life Fictions, a solo exhibition of her series of the same name.
