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.

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

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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Materials Under Consideration (from Ravel/Unravel exhibition)

Hello, Ohio

Images from my solo exhibition, Ravel/Unravel on view at Paper Circle in Nelsonville, OH through July 26, 2009. Extra special thanks to Molly Schoenhoff, who made this exhibition possible, in ways both large and small.
http://www.papercircle.org/exhibits/heather_watkins.html

More images from Character Study exhibition

Top to bottom: Wallflower (Self Portrait); Giddy; Shroud; Siblings.

Character Study at Nine Gallery, August 7-31

An installation of twenty-some portraits, constructed with and mounted on fibers, evoking personalities, behaviors, states of mind, roles and social scenarios.



left to right: Prom; Unrequited; Passive Aggressive

From a series of mixed media drawings mapping various social scenarios using string, yarn, rope and other fibers. Dinner Conversation, above, was on view at Navarre in Portland in Fall 2005. It is approximately 11 feet wide, and was bought by a private collector for her dining room in Seattle.