BIO:

HEATHER LYON holds a BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has recently been exhibited and performed at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine, TEDx Dirigo, Portland, Maine, The Danforth Gallery, University of Maine Augusta, “The Picnic Pavilion” a parallel project to the 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, The State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia and at Artisterium 10, Tbilisi, Georgia, for which she received an Emergency Artist Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York.

PROJECT:

"The Sigh of Velvet" is fabric based investigation into physical sensations of longing, memory, submersion, and the ocean. This work includes velvet that once belonged to Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) and was acquired through a series of synchronistic events.

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:


OPEN STUDIO, HEATHER LYON, "The Sigh of Velvet"
20 February at 19H 
OPEN: 21-22-23 February 2020, 16h - 20h
PERFORMANCE: 22 February, 21h

Artists Talk: Grace Crabtree + Heather Lyon
7 February, 18h00