Artist Mara G Haseltine to Present Her Work Estrogen Tales at Eugene Lang College/The New School for Liberal Arts
Artist's Mara G Haseltine's internationally acclaimed work, Estrogen Tales: The Untold Story of Nine Molecules and How They Bonded, opens on April 8th at Eugene Lang College/The New School for Liberal Arts.
New York, NY April 8, 2008 - The Skybridge Curatorial Project at Eugene Lang College is proud to exhibit Mara G Haseltine's internationally acclaimed work, Estrogen Tales: The Untold Story of Nine Molecules and How They Bonded. The show opens on April 8th at Eugene Lang College/The New School for Liberal Arts, 65 West 11th Street, or 66 West 12th Street (3rd floor passageway). The artist talk begins at 4pm.
After an unprecedented success during her last show in Washington D.C. at the national Museum of Health and Medicine, this eagerly awaited exhibition, Estrogen Tales, finally makes it to the big apple. In Estrogen Tales, Haseltine addresses the issue of "science in plain site", bringing to our attention how drug companies ignore and never test some scientific discoveries, which have the potential of becoming major breakthroughs in medicine, and therefore never make it to market. This important show not only celebrates Dr. Kim's contributions to scientific research but also creates a forum for the viewer to ask the question, which drugs are brought to market and which ones are not and why? A simple form questionnaire will be available for visitors at the New School from the National Institute of Health which asks simple questions about what the next generation is looking for in the future of contraception.
Estrogen Tales: The Untold Story of Nine Molecules and How They Bonded, is a series of silkscreen's, sculptures and digital prints celebrating scientific discoveries inspired by forty years of research by chemist Dr. Hyun K. Kim on molecular improvements to both male and female contraception and women's health. The nine silkscreen's depicting estrogen molecules are a small fraction of Kim's research which was published but never developed commercially, the molecular data that comprise Kim's findings are immortalized in Heseltine's nine gold on gold silkscreen's. These scientific discoveries that in addition to benefiting men and women's health, might have eliminated the birth control related pollutants that poison today our natural water sources, negatively impacting the fauna that inhabits them and its ability to reproduce.
Haseltine true to form has chosen to use sumptuous textures and each piece in the show has a minimalist opulence, which captures the viewer's attention. With the silkscreen medium gold on gold color palette, Haseltine celebrates the synthetic estrogen molecules developed by Kim in thirty some odd years he devoted himself to reproductive health medicine at the National Institute for Health. Two of the silk-screens depict an active estrogen molecule and a complimentary inactive molecule, which together create a super estrogen. The discovery of super estrogen as an oral contraceptive is one of his most notable accomplishments and allows Haseltine to link minimalist art to science.
Mara G. Haseltine's love of the natural sciences and form has been a constant theme throughout her work. Her work is figurative in that even her most abstract forms relate to the internal-external body, as well as human psychology. For the past seven years, Haseltine has been exploring computerized biological data. She digitally sculpts Synchrotoron X-ray crystallography, or three-dimensional portrayal of minute sub-molecular matter through refraction of light off their crystalline structures using animation software. She then fabricates her digital data using stereo-lithography, rapid prototyping, 5-axis milling, as well as creating digital prints and silk-screens.
Haseltine graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, with a bachelor's degree in studio art and art history, and from The San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, Calif., with a master's Degree in new genres and sculpture. Haseltine currently resides in New York City. She has worked as a sculptor throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and at the National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago in the Port of Spain, Trinidad. To learn more about the artist visit (http://www.calamara.com)
Kim graduated with a Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1963, and pursued a postdoctoral degree in organosulfur chemistry from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Since 1972, Kim has worked as a medicinal chemist and project officer at the Contraception and Reproductive Health Branch(CRHB) Center for Population Research, National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health. He is responsible for the contracts dealing with synthesis of non-Steroidal and non-hormonal male contraceptives, and a variety of. He has authored 32 publications, and holds 12 U.S patents and five international patents.
For additional information visit calamara.com or email calamara @ mac.com for an interview with Mara G Haseltine.
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