About
Hello. You have reached a website focused on the artistic practices of Heather Kapplow (no pronouns please, use my name). If you are looking to learn more about me for more professional purposes, maybe head over to my LinkedIn page, or, if you're looking for a collection of my art writing, it's here.
To learn about what I'm doing right now or next, see my events page, and if you'd like to read outdated ramblings about my process, I have a defunct blog that I feel guilty about whenever I remember it.
My artist statement in a work in progress. There’s one I’ve used for awhile on my CV, but here’s a version I’m currently considering replacing it with. Tell me if you like it better:
Using prompts, conversations, objects, sound, installation, walks and every kind of circumstance that I can wrangle, I invite people to pause their usual ways of operating, and to participate in embodied, anti-capitalist discovery processes with me. Together, we experiment with alternative ways of being and understanding, in an effort to reduce suffering bred by the social structures around us.
Also, here are some things that other people have said about my art-making that made me feel proud/like I'm on the right track/or made me blush:
“You have so many ideas that are excellent back to back to back. Truly each one of your ideas could be fleshed out into something that people would drop their jaws over. And you’re so generous with your ingenuity and so steadfast in your making a project work.”
"I really liked the way that you made your piece. It was so quiet and gentle. I didn't know for a long time whether you were making an art piece or just being with me and hearing about my favorite kind of cake. I still don't know, but the thing you baked with the pears and the cardamom butter-carmel—I loved it! It was as good as the banana cake. It was so good!"
"Heather plays with concepts gleaned from the everyday and turns them on their head to help audiences see anew conditions and contradictions implicit in existing realities. Heather’s work is critical without being negative, opinionated without being didactic. Heather has become one of my favorite contemporary artists."
"That was the closest encounter I've ever had with a goose. It was thrilling!"
In addition to working both independently and collaboratively on individual projects, I also participate in several ongoing collaborative processes. For more details about my work within ensembles and artist collectives, please visit my ongoing collaborations page.