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Artist Sharon Harper discusses her work in an artist\u2019s talk titled \u201cFrom Above and Below\u201d at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 27 in Olin Arts Center room 104, sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art in association with its exhibition Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography<\/a>.\u00a0 A reception in the Museum follows. The public is welcome, free of charge.<\/p>\n Harper is one of nine invited artists whose work forms a core around which the juried portion of the exhibition was built. \u00a0\u00a0Her photographs and videos draw on scientific and artistic uses of photography to illuminate existential concerns, embracing photography\u2019s contradictory ability to verify empirical evidence and evoke fantastical possibilities.\u00a0 Harper received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and is represented by Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, and Galerie Stefan R\u00f6pke, Cologne.\u00a0 Her work is represented in collections including Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum.\u00a0 Harper has several received several honors, including residency fellowship at the Monastery of Halsn\u00f8y, Norway; Banff Centre, Banff, Canada; Ucross Foundation, Ucross, Wyoming; Vermont Studio Center; Headlands Center for the Arts; and the The MacDowell Colony.\u00a0 She was also awarded a Film Studies Center Fellowship, Harvard University Film Studies Center.\u00a0 A book, titled From Above and Below<\/em> is due to be published this fall by Radius Books.<\/p>\n Harper\u2019s works in the Starstruck exhibition come from two series she has produced which deal with the astronomy.\u00a0 The first, One Month, Weather Permitting <\/em>was produced at an artist\u2019s residency in Banff, Canada, and stems from her commitment to photographing the sky each night for one month.\u00a0 The other series, Sun\/Moon (Trying to See Through a Telescope)<\/em> engages with the experience of human perception mediated by technology.\u00a0 \u201cIn works from both series,\u201d says Anthony Shostak, Curator of Education for the Museum and organizer of Starstruck, \u201cHarper shows us things that the human mind simply can\u2019t see without the lens and camera.\u00a0 Her works give us a beautiful way to ponder how our sensory systems, and thus our minds, are expanded by tools.\u201d<\/p>\n Starstruck is an ideal exhibition for teachers in all levels of education to engage with art related to a variety of subjects including astronomy and physical science, history, geography, literature, religion, and math.\u00a0 Group tours are welcome by appointment: (207) 786-8302.<\/p>\n The Bates College Museum of Art is open free to the public Mondays through Saturdays 10-5, and Wednesday evenings September through May until 9 p.m.\u00a0 For directions and more information about events, please visit bates.edu\/museum\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Artist Sharon Harper discusses her work in an artist\u2019s talk titled \u201cFrom…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":6324,"template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_bates_event_start":"2012-10-27 14:30:00","_bates_event_end":"2012-10-27 15:30:00","_bates_event_allDay":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"event-tag":[],"class_list":["post-6322","bates_events","type-bates_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"start":"2012-10-27T14:30:00","end":"2012-10-27T15:30:00","location":{"rendered":"Bates College Olin Arts Center<\/span>, Olin 104<\/span>
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