Originally from New Jersey and currently working between New York City and Upstate New York, Heather Weston is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice exists in the "in-between"—bridging the rural materials of her heritage with contemporary conceptual frameworks. As a third-generation inheritor of her family’s farm, she works with objects that have outlived their original narratives: worn leather, pony hair, and discarded relics shaped by silence and labor.
Through site-specific installation, sculpture, and performance, Weston interrogates cultural iconographies of control—specifically the mythology of the horse and the cowboy. By employing tactile processes of stitching and binding, she softens and destabilizes symbols of masculinity to reveal the emotional frameworks they impose on the body and the land. Her work creates a space where inherited roles can loosen, allowing new understandings of identity and belonging to take shape.
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