NC MUSEUM OF ART, RALEIGH – CINNABAR is an immersive installation included in You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences. Apr 7 – Jul 22, 2018
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CAM RALEIGH – No 22 / Penumbra is a solo dance work by Justin Tornow, created in collaboration with Heather Gordon, with Gordon’s installation And Then The Sun Swallowed Me.
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NC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE & MATH, DURHAM – Four tape drawing installations mapping alchemical properties as origami patterns.
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CAM RALEIGH – A black tape and video site installation demonstrating the power of a supernova and our inability to escape its lifecycle. Runs through Feb 4, 2018 with dance performance with Justin Tornow on Feb 1 at 7pm.
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21C DURHAM, NC – A full-length dance work in 6 movements by COMPANY in collaboration with Jess Dilday, Heather Gordon, Alex Maness, Matthew McClure, Lee Weisert and Del Ward.
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21C DURHAM, NC – ECHO is an interdisciplinary collaboration with Justin Tornow that explores junctions between site-specific installation, live performance, and pre-recorded video projection.
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ARCANA, DURHAM – “Dimensions” opening Friday, May 18th from 5-10pm. Experimental string works, created to celebrate Moogfest, investigate musical intervals found in crop circles and cathedrals.
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SPECTRE ARTS, DURHAM, NC – Physical objects representing silent intervals that form the structure of our sound ocean. Sep 15, 2017 – Oct 6, 2017
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VISUAL ART EXCHANGE, RALEIGH, NC – In the day-long performance “Typeface,” Gordon and Vitiello turn the VAE gallery into a low-velocity particle accelerator for language that captures the wonder of that debris. July 15, 2017 from 11a-4p.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES – An email from 2015 reveals collaborators still seeing eye-to-eye in 2018.
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DUKE ART ANNEX, DURHAM, NC – Mural project at Duke University
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ACKLAND ART MUSEUM, CHAPEL HILL, NC – A temporary site-specific installation at the Ackland Art Museum, Oct-Nov 2016
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DURHAM – Don’t You Lie To Me podcast interview released. Jeff asks me about the developmental arc of my work, my personal life, and my identity as a human being making art.
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WATERWORKS, SALISBURY, NC – “Some Shifting and Some Time”
Sep 10, 2016-Feb 4, 2017
Opening Sep 16 from 6-8p with an artist talk starting at 5p
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WILMINGTON, NC – Collaborative work presented with Justin Tornow & COMPANY Continue reading
DURHAM, NC – In 2015, I completed the upper cabinet mural at the Cocoa Cinnamon Hillsborough Rd location using the geo-coordinates of a history of the travel of coffee.
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DURHAM, NC – a mobile art installation commissioned by KONTEK Systems
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SECCA, WINSTON-SALEM, NC – NC Arts Council Fellows 2014-2015
October 1, 2015 – January 17, 2016
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CAM RALEIGH – Selections from “Value of Words #15/5” at CAM Raleigh, November 2015
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SUNTRUST GALLERY – FOLDING LIGHT, a collaborative show from Heather Gordon and Warren Hicks, Oct 24-Nov 28, 2015
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ARTPRIZE 7 – “Resting Place” is an origami map of 26 Hopewell earthwork locations constructed in cardboard and installed at Lyon Square for ArtPrize7.
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THE CARRACK – AUG 4-15, 2015 with two performances of The Value of Words #15/5, a collaboration with Justin Tornow
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CRAVEN ALLEN GALLERY – Demystifying the Artist/Collector Bond. Jan 17 – Mar 28, 2015
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THE CARRACK – This group exhibition gathers LOADED OBJECTS from many North Carolina artists and sources, and is curated by Chris Vitiello.
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Heather Gordon is awarded an North Carolina Artist Fellowship through the North Carolina Arts Council.
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Using Processing, I’ve attempted to create a simple algorithm for a natural process observed at Figure Eight Island’s beach.
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DURHAM – For my contribution to the CSA, I’m producing a limited edition set of 50 prints on paper. The design for the prints is based on prime meridian locations throughout history.
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ARTSPACE – Using the birthplaces and residence locations for Gordon’s grandmother and her daughters, she created a small set of spatially related data used as a springboard to create the final diagrammatic works.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Root Division presents Character Profile, a group exhibition featuring projects that explore intersections between the forms, mechanisms and meanings of language.
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What I have tried to do is offer a kind of phenomenological reading of my experience of encountering your work. It is highly personal and probably says as much or more about me that it does about your work.
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Language analysis, cultural events, and the packaging of news is the subject of Small Talk. These works are manipulations of the front pages of the Sunday NY Times.
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The people in our lives define us. Through our relationships, we come to understand who we are and navigate the complexity of choices that create the path of our personal narratives.
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Early in 2013, we produced this bit of graffiti on an abandoned wall near our studios. It’s a binary string of 1’s and 0’s of the words “i’m being wasted”.
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My journey in this collaborative project started when I met Areli & Leon “on the bike”. We were sympatico. When they started work on Cocoa Cinnamon, they contacted me early on inviting me to join them.
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DURHAM – For Binary Bovine, I took a recording of a cow’s moo, converted it to a 95-page binary string of 1’s and 0’s, and plotted it on this life-size, fiberglass cow.
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RALEIGH – Codework is an exhibition that examines the ways in which visual artists explore their capacity to understand and contribute to the many nuances of codes.
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GREENSBORO – Word Maps presents four artists who incorporate words and letters in their works to reveal relationships between printed texts and our contemporary visual environment.
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ALLENTON GALLERY – The paintings for Hear & Now, reminiscent of analog records, explore the relationship between geography and location, memory and auditory experience, and sound bite culture.
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We started the project with words and numeric totals for each round of play typed on index cards for a game between two players. Sydney took the even numbered cards, and I took the odds.
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CHAPEL HILL – Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On was a show of over 50 artists exploring Alfredo Jaar’s idea of “place can not be global,” curated by elin o’Hara slavick and Carol Magee.
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Each of these works compares three content sources surrounding a controversial topic. The source material is presented as 7-bit binary, and plotted in ink on ECG paper.
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Text from classic works of literature is converted to 8-bit binary strings and plotted in ink on chart paper. Although the text content is visualized using an “algorithm”, the meaning remains illegible.
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