Sarah Hearn will share insights about her latest interconnected bodies of work that visualize invisible microbial worlds. What’s a microbe? Only Earth’s oldest living organisms, so tiny that they are absolutely-everywhere-all-the-time. They are the essential workers of our biome doing unimaginable jobs. The artist has studied the forms and functions of species like fungal mycelia, bacteria, viruses, yeasts and molds. Hearn will discuss her artistic response to this research which produced the monumental gel pen drawings, watercolor paintings, and small sculptures of hand felted wool on display in the Microbial Multiverse exhibition through October 14.
5:30 PM - Refreshments & Meet the Artist
6:00 PM - Artist Talk
About the Artist
Sarah Hearn is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator based in Norman, OK. Through research-based explorations of biological life and natural phenomena, Hearn’s art practice inhabits two realms - one grounded in studies of life on planet earth, and another in an atmosphere of science fiction. Her artwork reveals a multitude of invisible worlds hidden in nature opening a path of discovery to empathetic interspecies learning/appreciation. The artist works fluently in the media of drawing, photography, installation, book making and social practice. She frequently collaborates with fellow artists, scientists and municipalities on rhizomatic projects that expand the fields art and the concept of community.