ARTIST STATEMENT
I create Feminist artwork with mixed media. Each object becomes an icon in a world dialogue to end sexism. My use of specific iconography and material has a direct correlation to the Feminist Art Movement.
As a Louisiana artist, I connect the relationship between women, their physical bodies and food. Each represents love, sex and life. Our American culture thrives on tradition and identity. I bring all these symbols together to illustrate the lives of contemporary women in society.
I end up assembling fragments of information to describe ideas through performances, paintings and photography. The characters I invent are engaged in dialogue with the audience. They represent the need to evolve in constant change and conflict. The dichotomy between strength and vulnerability thrives in my work.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Heather Weathers was born in Metairie, Louisiana 1971. She attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Art, combining mixed media and contemporary ideas. After graduating from NOCCA, Heather earned her BFA at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, pursuing performance art, painting and ceramic art, and in 1994 she performed in a New Orleans Industrial band called Gimp. Heather earned her MFA from Pratt Institute in 1998, combining her feminist views, multi media materials and performance art in a piece involving a bikini made out of meat called “Sweet Meat” in 2001.
After graduating, Heather started a series of art programs in Brooklyn, New York. She still creates art curriculum. She exhibited with the feminist group Soho 20.
In 2007 Weathers was recognized by the ACLU foundation of Louisiana as a defender of civil liberties . She lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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