Heather Freeman : Photography / Time + Digital Arts

Heather D. Freeman received her BA from Oberlin College in 1997 and her MFA from Rutgers University in 2000. She has taught at Allegheny College, Youngstown State University, the University of Kentucky and Clemson University and has worked as a graphic designer, animator, video editor and art director in New York and New Jersey. Her videos, animations, digital prints, and drawings have been exhibited nationally and internationally and she has participated in artist residencies in Hungary and Spain.

Freeman has been interested in science and mythology 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 also explores the 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" and "Myths" to see where reality may lie -- but also to point out and accentuate the occasional absurdity resulting from their intersection. Freeman attempts to postulate, explore, and divulge these ideas, thereby forming, simultaneously, her own applied mythologies and her own private science.