GoldenBeltArtist-HeatherGordon

Painting & Drawing
Suite 3-133

mail@heather-gordon.com

919-627-1172

www.heather-gordon.com

Starting in 2009, I began new work drawn from my interest in forms of communication. In particular, I’m attracted to how information is recorded and transmitted, stored and shared. Much of this work involves converting data from its original analog (written text and audio) to digital (binary strings of 1′s and 0′s), and a final conversion back to analog which is presented in pictorial form.

How are written and oral communication related to art making? How are these communicative processes similar? Is the shared and stored message corrupted by the devices inherent to these forms of communication? What are we unable to communicate? When does information become meaningful rather than illegible and incomprehensible data? Where does the quantity and quality of data intersect to create valuable meaning? Can specificity of communicative form reliably represent legible and meaningful content?

Biography
Born in 1967, Heather Gordon received her B.F.A. from the University of Florida in 1990 and her M.F.A in Painting from New Mexico State University in 1995. In 2010, Heather’s work was part of the Weatherspoon Museum’s Art on Paper 2010 biennial exhibition and 14th Annual No Dead Artists Juried Exhibition at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans. Most recently, Heather became the recipient of the Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant which she will use to fund an artist residency in Iceland, and she has been awarded a residency for 2011 at the Vermont Studio Center. She currently lives in Durham.

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Painting & Drawing

Suite 3-133

919-627-1172

Starting in 2009, I began new work drawn from my interest in forms of communication. In particular, I’m attracted to how information is recorded and transmitted, stored and shared. Much of this work involves converting data from its original analog (written text and audio) to digital (binary strings of 1′s and 0′s), and a final conversion back to analog which is presented in pictorial form.

How are written and oral communication related to art making? How are these communicative processes similar? Is the shared and stored message corrupted by the devices inherent to these forms of communication? What are we unable to communicate? When does information become meaningful rather than illegible and incomprehensible data? Where does the quantity and quality of data intersect to create valuable meaning? Can specificity of communicative form reliably represent legible and meaningful content?

Biography
Born in 1967, Heather Gordon received her B.F.A. from the University of Florida in 1990 and her M.F.A in Painting from New Mexico State University in 1995. In 2010, Heather’s work was part of the Weatherspoon Museum’s Art on Paper 2010 biennial exhibition and 14th Annual No Dead Artists Juried Exhibition at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans. Most recently, Heather became the recipient of the Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant which she will use to fund an artist residency in Iceland, and she has been awarded a residency for 2011 at the Vermont Studio Center. She currently lives in Durham.