Reservoir: Heather Watkins & Louise Eastman at Planthouse, NYC

Installation views of my exhibition with Louise Eastman at Planthouse Gallery in New York. More information about the exhibition here: http://planthouse.net/reservoir-louise-eastman-and-heather-watkins/

Seeing Things

Seeing Things, nos. 1, 3, 12, 14, 24.  2015. Ink, linen. 13 x 16 in. each

New work included in my one-person exhibition, This Is The Only One, on view at PDX Contemporary Art, September 1-26, 2015. pdxcontemporaryart.com

The Soul Selects her own Society

Surfacing: Miller Meigs Collection sequence  2010–2013

I am honored to have my work included in the exhibition The Soul Selects her own Society: Women Artists from the Miller Meigs Collection at the Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, MN, January 30–March 13, 2015. 

The exhibition includes work by Louise Bourgeois, Ann Hamilton, Jessica Jackson-Hutchins, Kristan Kennedy, Ana Mendieta, Kimsooja, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Su-Mei Tse, Sara VanDerBeek, Heather Watkins, Hannah Wilke,  and Bobbi Woods.

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HOURS

HOURS, 2014
Twenty-four hand-treated offset lithography printing plates with residual ink left to dry after printing in twenty-four custom-mixed shades of blue.

Recurrent Work / Book

Images of Heather Watkins – Recurrent Work, recently published in conjunction with my one-person exhibition at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University. The book features two exquisite texts – a spatialized poem, and an essay – by Stephanie Snyder, Director and Curator of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon. The book's design, beautifully executed by Adam McIsaac / Sibley House, includes over one hundred work examples, with emphasis on ink- and fiber-based works created over the past five years.

The book is available for purchase ($20) through The Art Gym, by emailing bshell@marylhurst.edu. A lo-res downloadable pdf of the book is available here.

This publication was made possible through the help and generosity of Jane Beebe of PDX Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon; the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation and Linda Hutchins and John Montague, contributors to The Art Gym Publication Fund; and collectors and art advocates Dorothy Lemelson, Sarah and Andrew Meigs, Mary Caulkins, Thomas Cody, Anne and James Crumpacker, Mary and Spencer Dick, JoAnn Gonzales Hickey, Deneen King, Carol Smith-Larson, David Lessoff, Sarah Dougher and Nathan Overmeyer, Travers Hill Polak, the Shipley Family, Jonathan Snyder, Andrea and Jon Walker, Nell Warren and Greg Misarti, and anonymous donors.

Recurrent Work at The Art Gym

Installation views of the exhibition Heather Watkins – Recurrent Work, on view at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon, February 24-April 2, 2014.

The exhibition was curated by Terri M. Hopkins, director and curator emerita of The Art Gym. In conjunction with the exhibition, The Art Gym has published Heather Watkins – Recurrent Work, a book featuring an in-depth essay and poetic text by Stephanie Snyder, Curator and Director of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, and was designed by Adam McIsaac/Sibley House.

For more information about the exhibition and the book, please visit this link: http://www.marylhurst.edu/arts-and-events/art-gym/art-gym-exhibitions/current-exhibition.html

Score at Portland State University's Lincoln Performance Hall

Score, 2014. India ink, cotton cord, mild steel

Score, a permanent installation commissioned by Portland State University for Lincoln Performance Hall, part of Oregon's Percent for Art in Public Places program, managed by the Oregon Arts Commission. Project assistance by: Matthew D'Amboise (installation); Zoë Clark (installation); Rob Off (mounting system); Abigail McNamara (fabrication); Joel Martinez, Kris Wallsmith, Jim Meakin, Katie Savastano (special ops). Photography by Evan La Londe.

Work in Progress

Studio shot of work in progress for an upcoming commission at Portland State University.

Object Stories

Small Medium, 2013

The APEX exhibition is over, but you can still visit my work at the Portland Art Museum, in the Object Stories gallery, on view until November 16, 2013. You can also hear me talking, either at the museum's kiosk in the gallery, or here: http://www.objectstories.org/stories/#!/?Story=bd3a2e42-da05-e311-93f8-002590a49a95

APEX: Heather Watkins at Portland Art Museum

APEX: Heather Watkins, a solo exhibition at the Portland Art Museum, is on view until October 20, 2013. The exhibition includes a new sequence of my ongoing drawing series Surfacing (2008-present); two fiber-based sculptural works (Medium and Medium II, 2013); Transcript (2013); a 25-foot scroll drawing; and Sessions (2013), a series of archival digitally-printed folios. Funding for this exhibition was provided by a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation.

New Drawings

details of new drawings from the Surfacing series that will be on view this summer at the Portland Art Museum (July 20-October 20, 2013). The Portland Art Museum's APEX series presents the work of four contemporary northwest artists each year. My work for this exhibition is generously supported in part by grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation.

Gradual Instant: Lithographs

Six lithographs made in collaboration with master printer Mark Mahaffey of Mahaffey Fine Art in Portland, Oregon. Three images are printed in two color sets: white ink on black glassine, and black ink on Kozo-shi. This project was funded in part by an artist's project grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council. The prints were presented in the exhibition Gradual Instant at the Edith Feldenheimer Gallery at Reed College, August 20-September 15, 2012. (Installation images of that exhibition below.)

Movement of Objects at Rest

Installation images from my exhibition, Movement of Objects at Rest, at PDX Contemporary Art, July 31-September 1, 2012. www.pdxcontemporaryart.com Photography by Dan Kvitka

A review of this exhibition, written by John Motley, appeared in The Oregonian's A&E print edition on Friday, August 10, 2012. Web version here: http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2012/08/heather_watkins_and_julie_mang.html

Stone Mystic

Stone Mystic no. 20, 2010

Preparing for solo exhibition at PDX Contemoporary Art in August.

Surfacing (lumber room sequence)

Installation view from Interior Margins at the lumber room, November 12, 2011 – January 31, 2012. Blair Saxon-Hill's Plane Still, 2011, on the left; my work, Surfacing (lumber room sequence), 2008-2011, on the right. Photography: Jeremy Bitterman.

Clouds Inclose Comets: The Envelope

My work is included in a group show at PDX Contemporary Art this month. Clouds Inclose Comets: The Envelope runs January 31–February 25, 2012.

Excerpts 16, 7, 13, 2.  2001–2005
Security envelopes, dryer sheets, embroidery thread
9 x 6 inches each


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