Art All About You

"Adenine Sky" an exhibition dealing with the points where art, science and religion meet runs April 3-26, 2003 at Artemisia Gallery in Chicago. Lynn Tomaszewski has represented one fourth of the data from human chromosome 22 as a giant lightbright sky.

For everyone who has ever wondered what they are made of, Lynn Tomaszewski's upcoming exhibition "Adenine Sky" provides some space for contemplation. "Adenine Sky" is the first of a four part series of installations representing genomic sequence data from human chromosome 22 as the 4 alchemical elements of earth, air, fire and water. Like a giant light-bright of our genetic code, "Adenine Sky" alludes to the element of fire and consists of over 300,000 hand-made holes, each corresponding to a specific adenine location in the genomic sequence.

Tomaszewski has been using genomic sequence data in her visual work for the past 4 years, creating visual documents that give equal time to art's past and science's future. Doug Hanson (Minneapolis Star Tribune) wrote of her 2000 installation "5%", "(it's)...as though Mondrian had been let loose in a research lab with scissors and a big roll of duct tape." The show will take place from April 3-26, 2003 with an opening reception April 4, 5-8pm.

Tomaszewski has been exploring the sublime potentials of the banal, invisible, and the everyday in her work for over 10 years. She has exhibited nationally in over 35 solo and group exhibitions and has won numerous awards and honors. She is an assistant professor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.