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/

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.