The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Issue date: 3/9/09 Section: Entertainment

Media Credit: Brandon Iwamoto Angelo Sakis, father of student and artist Christina Sakis, stops to take a look at one of the exhibits at the 4th Annual Art and Science Exhibition at the Curfman Gallery on Friday. Sakis's work, "Pullulated Series," along with the rest of the exhibit will be at the Curfman until March 27. See page 8 to read the full story.

The fourth annual Art and Science Exhibition at the Curfman Gallery in the Lory Student Center opened its doors to the public and rave reviews Friday afternoon.

A unique visual representation of CSU's science and research-centered personality, the show featured art that was either inspired by or was an aesthetic display of science as created by hundreds of students and faculty from across the university.

"It's very cool," said Jeff Shearer, a artist seeking a doctoral degree in Chemistry. "I saw an ad and thought that this would be a good excuse to continue photographing plasma reactors," equipment he works with in his chemical explorations.

"Plasma is really beautiful and chemically powerful; it's inspiring," he said of the most common form of matter, which gives stars their intensity in the form of ultraviolet or intense visible light.

Shearer and his fellow artists chosen to exhibit in the show made up a diverse group representing a multiplicity of CSU colleges and departments.

At the evenings' awards ceremony, the top two awards, Juror's Selection for Excellence and Best in Show, were both awarded to Danielle Sabey, a senior double major in math and art.

"I'm very surprised, I didn't even think about winning when I entered," Sabey said.

Sabey's winning pieces were unique and intended to explain complex mathematical concepts in an artistic way. Sabey submitted two pieces: The first a more than 100-page math book filled with pages of equations and formulas and the second a diptych that featured color-coded DNA strands.

When asked if she would continue to mix her two passions in the future, she said, "I'm sure I will continue to work with math in my art. If you know something, it will change the way you look at the world, and the way you look at the world changes the way you do art."

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