Her piece Cinnabar was featured in the North Carolina Museum of Art's exhibit titled You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences from April 7, 2018, until July 2, 2018.[1] Prior to the exhibit, her work was featured as part of the museum's Matrons of the Arts initiative, highlighting female-identified artists from around the world.[1] She received a North Carolina Artists Fellowship in 2014.[6]
Her collaborate works with dancer and choreographer Justin Tornow, titled Echo and SHOW,[7] were shown at 21c Durham Museum Hotel and The Durham Fruit.[6][8][9] In 2017 Gordon and Tornow collaborated to create No.19/Modulations, which was shown at the CCB Plaza in downtown Durham, North Carolina.[10]
In August 2018 her work titled DOUBLE EDGED: Geometric Abstraction Then and Now was shown at the Weatherspoon Art Museum.[11] Also in 2018, she debuted Steel, a tape installation, at The Dillon in Raleigh, North Carolina.[11]
In 2019 Gordon worked with the David M Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Duke University Archives to research documents related to the Duke Forest for her work titled Forest for the Trees.[11]
Personal life
Gordon was the only child of an accountant and engineer.[12] Her father was a United States Air Force officer, and grew up primarily on military bases around the United States.[3] Godron is lesbian, and said she knew when she was eight years old.[3]