NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Nov. 18, 2008

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Ann Dee Lee
Public Information Director
Oklahoma Arts Council
(405) 521-2931
anndee@arts.ok.gov

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE EXPLORED IN OKLAHOMA CITY ARTIST’S EXHIBIT
State Capitol, North Gallery, Through Jan. 11, 2009

Oklahoma City, OK – Oklahoma City artist Sarah Hearn is constantly inspired by new scientific discoveries. Her new exhibit at the State Capitol explores the parallels between the artist tinkering with scientific equations and the scientist tinkering with the systems of the universe.

Curated by the Oklahoma Arts Council, Hearn’s exhibit, Connecting Constellations of an Intangible Universe, will be on display in the first floor of the North Gallery at the State Capitol from Nov. 17 through January 19, 2009. The North Gallery is devoted to Oklahoma’s finest photographers and is open daily from 8:30-5:00.

In her artwork, Hearn fuses elements of geology, physics, biology, genetics and paleontology as conceptual building blocks to fabricate new relationships between these scientific fields. This giant game of “connect the dots” began with Hearn collecting old maps, charts, blueprints and any other relics of scientific measurement that she could find.

“These papers that once served as attempts to chart, diagram and quantify nature, now have new life as conceptual backgrounds for my drawings. These backgrounds represent the ambivalence I feel about human interaction with the natural world,” Hearn explained.

A native Oklahoman, Hearn received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Tulsa, Norman, Oklahoma City and Santa Fe. Hearn is actively involved with Oklahoma arts organizations including the Individual Artists of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Untitled [ArtSpace], Living Arts of Tulsa and DeadCENTER Film Festival.

For more information, contact Ann Dee Lee, Public Information Director, Oklahoma Arts Council, (405) 521-2931 or anndee@arts.ok.gov.

ABOUT THE OKLAHOMA ARTS COUNCIL

The Oklahoma Arts Council is a state agency whose mission is to improve lives through the arts by promoting and sustaining the development of a thriving arts environment, which is essential to quality of life, education and economic vitality for all Oklahomans.

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