Contact: Sarah Clark-Langager, director of the Western Gallery, (360) 650-3963, Sarah.ClarkLangager@wwu.edu

BELLINGHAM – Geraldine Ondrizek, whose exhibition “The Sound of Cells Dividing” is currently being shown at the Western Gallery, will present a lecture at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, in SMATE 120 on Western’s campus.

"Sound Wall"

For the last 20 years, Portland artist Geraldine Ondrizek has created architectural scaled works which house medical and biological information.  Since 2001 she has worked with medical professionals to gather images of human cellular tissue and genetic tests relating to ethnic identity and disease, and then used this information in her installations, films, and drawings. 

“The Sound of Cells Dividing” will be at the Western Gallery through Nov. 25.  It exhibits Ondrizek’s recent film “Cellular” and its corresponding set of drawings of a blastocyst, as well as her “Sound Wall” installation. “Sound Wall” was originally created for CAMAC, the Center for Art and Technology, and housed in a 17^th century monastery in France; it has been recreated for the Western Gallery and is comprised of three spaces created by handmade paper walls embedded with recordings of both healthy and cancerous cells dividing that were captured by Andrew Pelling, a biophysicist at the University of California at Los Angeles.    

Both the lecture and the exhibition are free and open to the public.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday – except Wednesdays when the gallery is open until 8 p.m. – and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. 

For more event details please visit http://westerngallery.wwu.edu/.    

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