LILLIAN HEREDIA

Anthropemy 

2022 - ongoing

one dozen red roses regurgitated, screen print on heirloom baby pillowcase, artist’s childhood high chair, 13"x32"x20"

13"x32"x20"

Visual Description: A brown, wooden highchair with textured legs and spokes has an off-white, small pillow case dangling smoothly from the edge of its seat. The pillow case contains a screen printed image of  a woman (the artist) spitting up rose petals into her lap. The print is a reddish brown which matches the color of the high chair almost perfectly.

Generatrix

2022

charcoal and colored pencil on paper

11.25"x8"x1.25" (each)

Visual Descriptions: Three black and white, framed drawings hang on a wall in a stacked column with gaps between them. The top drawing is a shoulder up portrait of a white woman with short hair with an egg shell dangling from her opened mouth. The middle drawing is the midsection of the same naked woman and has an orange egg yolk presumably where her belly button would go. The third drawing is of the woman's bottom half sitting down; she is still naked and her hand's block her genitalia. Her hands loosely grasp an egg.

Last Communion

2025

beeswax cast of artist’s throat and and beeswax cast of 100 communion wafers on wood panel, pigment, a sewing needle

8"x26"x.05"

Visual Description: A small, smooth buttery yellow rectangle dangles from a sewing needle on a white wall. It contains a three dimensional cast of the artist's throat. Underneath it are two silvery grey rectangles that hang on the wall in a column formation. Within the rectangles are stacked circles that transition from white to almost black.

Anthropemy III 

2022- ongoing

one dozen red roses regurgitated, screen print on heirloom baby pillowcase, white oak

13"x15"x2"

Visual Description: An off-white, almost sepia tone tiny pillow case rests on a wood strip in a way that makes it seem like it is sitting up. Small, ornate embroidery creates a frame for the image printed on the pillow case in reddish brown ink. The abstracted image is of a woman (the artist) spitting something into her lap. 

Boxes with bows, a broken toy

2025

found doll and a bedsheet (natural dye, ripped into strips, wound into cord, and woven)

12"x21"x4"

Visual Description: An off-white and pale pink weaving hangs on a white wall. Embedded in the weaving is a vintage doll of a young girl. She dangles from her feet and her arms are open above her head. The doll is white in complexion with brown wavy hair.

The eyes want to feel

2025

a bedsheet (dyed, ripped into strips, wound into cord, and woven)

21"x28"x7"

Visual Description: A  small, multicolored brown and earth tone weaving hangs on the wall. It gapes in the center. Some of the thick threads of the weft spill out and disrupt the clean pattern of the weaving. The very bottom has brown fringe with looped edges.

Give it a spine

2025

Plaster, twenty-two bite impressions, plastic tubing, pigment

4"x41"x1.5"

Visual Description: A long rectangular plank leans against a white wall. It is grayish-green in hue and has bite imprints on it in a vertical stripe. The bite imprints on the top half point upwards and on the bottom half point downward.

Ethylene(g)

2025

beeswax cast of orange halves and pigment

8.5"x11"x2"

Visual Description: Two half, three dimensional spheres hang staggered on the wall. Between the walls and the spheres are rectangles of creased, white wax paper. The spheres are multiple shades of brown with bits of orange poking through the brown's surface.

Untitled (rib cage)

2024

steam bent white oak

13"x20"2.75"

Visual Description: Bent strips of oak wood create a grid-like structure that hangs on a white wall. The twelve horizontal strips form convex curves and narrow in width from top to bottom creating a pyramid-like shape. The three vertical strips are in the center with a gap between them. They curve at the top. Dramatic shadows on the wall mirror the overall rib cage shape of the sculpture.

Born better

2025

upholstery foam, hydrocal, wax thread, pigment powder

11"x21"x8"

Visual Description: An amorphous nestled blob sits on a gray carpet. Its shape looks like a "U" drawn in bubble letters. It is a golden brown with gold flecks and has both a smooth and cracked surface.

Hinge

2022

wax, plaster, concrete, cotton thread

dimensions variable

Visual Description:  Two three dimensional objects sit next to each other on gray carpet. One is white with a gray bottom and the one to the left is red. Both objects have roughly the same shape and are casts of the artist’s knee. They appear to be hollow tubes with vertical bottom halves and then a slight bend that changes the direction of the objects creating an almost ninety degree angle.

Bone of My Bones

2023

hydrocal, bovine bone

7"x 3 "x2"

Visual Description: A three dimensional object hangs on a white wall. Half of the object is a pale pink and the other half is made of bone and is brown and tan in color. The object is diamond-like in shape except the top left half and bottom right half of the diamond are missing, creating curved negative spaces which the object's shadow starts to fill in.

Tongue Map 

2023

gauze, ink, thread

20" x 12" x 1"

Visual Description: A piece of white gauze hangs on a window with light pouring through its surface. In the center, in red, is four graphics of a tongue. Each tongue is labelled. The labels include "bitter," "sour," "salty," and "sweet."

Milk Teeth

2023

paper, bite impressions, blueberry, colored pencil

18"x48"x2"

Visual Description: A large white sheet of paper is folded into pleats. It rests against a window. The very bottom edge has a yellow tint. Bite imprints line the edges of the folds creating textured wavy lines.