Heather Gordon
Born1967
Alma materUniversity of Florida
New Mexico State University
Occupationartist
Children1

Heather Gordon (born 1967) is an American contemporary visual artist.

Career

Gordon creates large-scale paintings and immersive art projects, using numbers, algorithms, and geometry in her creative process.[1][2]

In November 2017 Gordon's installation And Then the Sun Swallowed Me was exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh.[3][4][5]

Her piece Cinnabar was featured in the North Carolina Museum of Art's exhibit titled You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences from April 7, 2018, until July 2, 2018.[1] Prior to the exhibit, her work was featured as part of the museum's Matrons of the Arts initiative, highlighting female-identified artists from around the world.[1] She received a North Carolina Artists Fellowship in 2014.[6]

Her collaborate works with dancer and choreographer Justin Tornow, titled Echo and SHOW,[7] were shown at 21c Durham Museum Hotel and The Durham Fruit.[6][8][9] In 2017 Gordon and Tornow collaborated to create No.19/Modulations, which was shown at the CCB Plaza in downtown Durham, North Carolina.[10]

In August 2018 her work titled DOUBLE EDGED: Geometric Abstraction Then and Now was shown at the Weatherspoon Art Museum.[11] Also in 2018, she debuted Steel, a tape installation, at The Dillon in Raleigh, North Carolina.[11]

Her work has also been shown at the Ackland Art Museum, Waterworks, The Carrack Modern Art Museum, and the North Carolina School of Science and Math.[12][13][14] She is part of Mural Durham, an art project in Durham.[15]

In 2019 Gordon worked with the David M Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Duke University Archives to research documents related to the Duke Forest for her work titled Forest for the Trees.[11]

Personal life

Gordon was the only child of an accountant and engineer.[12] Her father was a United States Air Force officer, and grew up primarily on military bases around the United States.[3] Godron is lesbian, and said she knew when she was eight years old.[3]

Gordon earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Florida in 1990 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from New Mexico State University in 1995. She lives in Durham.[12] Gordon has a son named Henry.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "'Value of attentive listening, power of patience, true spirit of collaboration:' Durham artist Heather Gordon on art, motherhood". WRAL.com. March 11, 2018.
  2. "Studio Tour with Heather Gordon". Our State Magazine. March 31, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 Hall, Daniel (November 22, 2017). "Meet Heather Gordon, the Durham Artist Behind the Obscurely but Deeply Personal And Then the Sun Swallowed Me at CAM Raleigh". INDY Week.
  4. "Artist Talk: Heather Gordon - NCMA - North Carolina Museum of Art". ncartmuseum.org.
  5. Howe, Brian (September 13, 2017). "Fall into Art". INDY Week.
  6. 1 2 "BIO | HEATHER GORDON".
  7. Vitiello, Chris (February 22, 2017). "Artist Heather Gordon Makes Herself a Mirror for Justin Tornow to Dance Inside at 21c Museum Hotel". INDY Week.
  8. Vitiello, Chris (May 17, 2019). "The Commons Crit: Justin Tornow Is Creating a "Space in Which Nothing Is Wrong"". INDY Week.
  9. Woods, Byron (July 27, 2017). "Dance Review: Justin Tornow and COMPANY Look at Dance From Every Angle in No. 19/Modulations". INDY Week.
  10. Abrams, Amanda (July 19, 2017). "Justin Tornow and Heather Gordon Reunite With More Multimedia Dance Innovations in No. 19/Modulations". INDY Week.
  11. 1 2 3 "Heather Gordon". Rubenstein Arts Center. July 8, 2019.
  12. 1 2 3 "Heather Gordon".
  13. "Heather Gordon | Artist Profile with Bio". www.mutualart.com.
  14. Howe, Brian (June 1, 2016). "The Carrack Modern Art is Moving, Redrawing the Downtown Art Scene's Borders". INDY Week.
  15. "Heather Gordon". Mural Durham.
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