Heather Lyon

STATEMENT 

My site-responsive performance, video and installation work investigates the inter-weaving of relationships through gestures of coded communication and embodiment practices. I explore the ways in which we negotiate longing, loss, desire, vulnerability, and failure in our human attempts at nourishment, comfort, catharsis and connection. I choose materials (milk, ash, felt, wine, sequins, salt) for their relationship to our bodies and their potential metaphoric and formal meanings. My work is an inquiry into the transformative potential of connection, with ourselves, each other and the natural world within which we are deeply embedded.

BIO

Heather Lyon is a performance, video and installation artist born and working in Maine. Combining her interest in the meanings of materials (ranging from rebar to sequins to milk to ash) and the question of the human body, she investigates relationships and the ways in which we negotiate longing, loss, desire, and vulnerability. She 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,  Zaratan, Lisbon, Portugal, 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