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As a fashion stylist in the 1990′s, the repetitive action of shopping and returning while working on catalogs became a kind of meditation on consumption for Heather Sparks. It diffused her own need to consume and demystified the lure of luxury brands. In the spirit of the fashion industry, Sparks invites others to join her in binging, purging, shopping and returning as an exploration of desire and consumption.
Heather Sparks is a conceptual artist whose work spans installation, sculpture, and video as well as drawing and painting. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and was recently included in the Valencia Biennale, “Observatori”, in Valencia, Spain, the Lyon Biennale, in Lyon, France, and the Southeby’s Institute NY, NY, and will be installed at the Atomic Testing Museum- Smithsonian Museum, Las Vegas in the fall of 2010. Her work has been reviewed and featured in Flash Art, World Sculpture News, Art Papers, LA Times, Herald Tribune, Ha’aratz, Studio Magazine, Camerawork Journal of Photographic Arts, Surface Magazine, Architecture Now, Der Freund, SF Bay Guardian, Slash Seconds, Opium Magazine, Zing Magazine, and other publications. She has been a Kala artist in residence, and is a Skowhegan alumni. Heather received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994, and her MFA from Stanford University in 2007.