Upcoming exhibitions

an other presence

HEATHER ROWE

SEPTEMBER 6- October 11, 2025

Gallery VERY is pleased to present An Other Presence, a solo exhibition by New York–based artist Heather Rowe, on view September 6–October 11, 2025. This will be Rowe’s second exhibition with the gallery and will feature two sculptures, a video installation, a unique artist’s book, and a series of photographs. Drawing on the heightened aesthetics and psychological charge of 1970s Italian giallo films, Rowe’s sculptures stage encounters with fractured space, shifting light, and the unsettling tension between beauty and threat. Her new video work, filmed through the prisms of a historic Fresnel lens and an invented experimental lens, extends these investigations into perception, layering light and shadow into a luminous, ghostlike skin. The exhibition also includes Thacher’s Woe, a poem by Lael Backus. 

In An Other Presence, Rowe treats space as both stage and apparition. Her sculptures begin from minimalist structures but are “dressed” with color, texture, and reflective surfaces, invoking the saturated palettes and stylized menace of giallo cinema. Cuts, frames, and mirrored insertions fragment perception, while the video refracts light into shifting veils and spectral distortions. Across all media, Rowe blurs the line between the seen and the imagined, the safe and the dangerous, inviting the viewer into a slow reveal where nothing is quite as it appears.

Heather Rowe has exhibited at MoMA PS1, Artists Space, White Columns, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Galerie Zink in Berlin, and Ballroom Marfa in Texas. In 2008, her work was featured in the Whitney Biennial. Her projects include Beyond the Hedges (Slivered Gazebo) at Socrates Sculpture Park (2013), Only in Your Way at DiverseWorks (2017), and Construction House at Providence College Galleries (2020). She received the FST StudioProject Fund award in 2024 and was an Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 2025. Her work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Art in America, among others, and is held in several public collections.