New York · Buenos Aires
New York · Buenos Aires
Internal Puppets · Mixed Media on Paper · New York
Argentine-born artist & musician. Half a century of figures, faces and dreamscapes — drawn, painted and sung.
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Half a Century on Paper
More than a hundred works — figures, faces, dreamscapes — in one immersive 3D space.
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The Artist
Jorge Heilpern was born in Buenos Aires to Romanian and Polish parents. At thirteen he picked up his first guitar; the drawing began soon after, and never stopped. Economist, diplomat, Emmy-winning composer for NBC prime time — and, through every chapter, an artist filling the hours of the day with ink, acrylic and color pencil.
Self-taught and intuitive, Jorge has been making images on paper for more than half a century. His subjects are figures, faces, animals, cities and dreamscapes — the "internal puppets" of a private cosmology, performers acting out what cannot otherwise be named.
Today he lives and works in New York City, where the work keeps growing — on paper, on canvas, and in song.
Six Series, One Cosmology
The recurring characters of Jorge's universe, gathered in series.
Artistic Approach
Mixed media on paper: ink, acrylic and color pencils, in formats from a 4–6 inch intimate scale up to 18 × 24 inches.
Self-taught, intuitive, gestural. Figures, faces, animals, cities and dreamscapes appear and re-appear as recurring characters — the "internal puppets" of a private cosmology.
Not to replicate the visible world, but to communicate the feeling that something lies beyond it. Emotional, visceral, energetic.
Artistic Vision
Heilpern’s vision is not built on a school, a manifesto, or a single project. It is built on persistence: more than fifty years of drawing the same private cast of characters in different keys, like a composer returning over and over to a small set of motifs.
His images sit comfortably between drawing and painting, between figuration and dream — cities tilt, witches fly, lovers slump on a sofa with a cat, statues sing into the sky. The work invites the viewer not to decode, but to feel — to recognize one of their own internal puppets stepping briefly onto someone else's stage.
Studio Notes
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For inquiries about available works on paper, larger pieces, studio visits, commissions, or the music side of the practice, please use the channels below.
