Artist and theoretician, Susan Anker , will be exhibiting her work in the Robert Else Gallery on the first floor of Kadema Hall, from March 26 to March 30. The exhibit is part of the CSUS Festival of the Arts, which runs through Saturday, March 31.

Anker?s work mixes science with art, exploring “genetic imagery” with depictions of chromosomes, molecules, DNA sequences, and investigates the kinship between art and science.

“I am interested in the intersection between art and biology,” Anker said in a press release. “It?s the role of art to question the unquestioned and explore the role of visual metaphors. The new science of genetics provides a particularly fertile field for artistic investigation,” she says.

Anker, who is also an art history and theory professor and chair at the New York School of Visual Arts, has had her art featured at museums and galleries such as the Smithsonian Insitute, the Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan.

The exhibit will be open during the Else Gallery?s normal hours, from noon to 4:30 p.m., Monday March 26 through Friday March 30. Anker will be present for the opening of the exhibit, and will give a lecture on “Art and the New Genetics” in Mariposa Hall, room 1000 at 7 p.m. on March 28. She will also be present for an interdisciplinary panel discussion at 8 p.m. in Kadema Hall room 145.

For more information about the CSUS Festival of the Arts, call Sac State?s Public Affairs Office at 278-6156. For more information about Susan Anker, visit her web site, at www.geneculture.org.