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Redux Contemporary Arts Center in Charleston, South Carolina will be exhibiting new work by mixed-media artist Heather Freeman April 8th through May 6th. The opening reception for this exhibit is on Friday, April 8th at 8:00pm. Redux now has new gallery hours - Wednesday through Thursday, 12pm - 5pm. The exhibit, including the opening reception, is free and open to the general public.
Heather Freeman received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts and German Studies from Oberlin College in 1993. In the Fall of 1998, she entered the MFA program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University at New Brunswick, New Jersey concentrating in installation art. While exploring the relationship between the history of science and metaphysics, Freeman's medium of choice became single channel video and digital print.
After a brief flirtation with advertising, Freeman taught art at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. She is currently continuing her research in computer art and video at the University of Kentucky where she is a Assistant Professor of New Media in the College of Fine Arts. Her work is exhibited regionally and nationally. Her work has appeared internationally in Cuba, Hungary, Germany, Sweden and Canada.Heather Freeman has been interested in science since a child. She is particularly interested in the language and symbolic forms of science and where these intersect with mythic, religious and popular iconography. Freeman believes science has merged with popular culture to become a covertly “universal” religion; the unacknowledged religion of the “truth” we seek on television, in the movies, in comic books and video games. She is particularly interested in ways we import these very public and secular languages and symbols into the very private languages of family, friendships and spirituality. She now looks for “Truths”, myths, superstitions and expectations of the past to see where reality may lie -- but also to point out and accentuate its occasional absurdity. Freeman attempts to postulate, explore, and divulge these ideas, thereby forming, simultaneously, her own applied mythologies and her own private science.