Heidi Schlatter, "ORE"

Heidi Schlatter, "ORE" 14 x 14 inches Archival ink on DiBond Artist Bio: Heidi Schlatter is an American artist born in New Jersey. She lives and works in NYC and upstate NY. Her work has been exhibited widely in galleries - 3A Gallery, carriage trade, Magenta Plains, Momenta Art, Schroeder Romero and Caren Golden Gallery, all in NYC, as well as Galerie Erna Hacey, Brussels, Gallery Luisotti in LA, MoMA/PS1, Hallwalls, Daros Collection, Zurich, Kunsbunker, Nurnberg among others, and is included in public and private collections. She has been the recipient of numerous grants, including NYFA, Pollack-Krasner, Art Matters and residencies at Macdowell, Yaddo and Kunstlerhaus Boswil. Schlatter holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Artist Statement: Heidi Schlatter’s work spans across multiple mediums and often directly engages with the built environment, examining how architecture reflects and reinforces power structures and economics. This print, “Ore” comes from her installation at CAS in 2025 which incorporated pictures that pull from the languages of both photography and sculpture. Highlighting the romanticized role of photography in the representation and historicization of the American western landscape, this work examines the legacy of resource extraction on the appropriation and settlement of the continent, and how it is intertwined with American exceptionalism and capitalism.