Heather Gordon

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]

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] Gordon 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]