The Oracle of Amplitude: Heather Hart

Photo Credits: Storm King Art Center & Toni Hafkenscheid

Photo Credits: Storm King Art Center & Toni Hafkenscheid

The Oracle of Amplitude: Heather Hart
On View: May 2, 2019 - February 29, 2020

Interdisciplinary artist Heather Hart brings to Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling the newest iteration of her interactive installation series of rooftop Oracles. The Museum presents The Oracle of Amplitude, an independent rooftop, similar to the Artist’s own gabled roof from childhood removed from its house and edging its way into the gallery floor. Hart invites visitors to interact with the life-sized roof to explore, to look, to talk, and to listen. Over the course of the exhibition, the roof will be further activated with live performances and storytelling sessions. The Oracle of Amplitude is Hart’s ninth site-specific installation in this series and the first to be installed in Manhattan.

Photo by Hidemi Takagi

Photo by Hidemi Takagi

About Heather Hart

Heather Hart is a visual artist who works in a variety of media including interactive and participatory installation, sculpture and drawing. Her work has been included in a variety of publications and exhibited worldwide including at Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA), Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, NY), and the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park. She studied at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Princeton University in New Jersey and received her MFA from Rutgers University in New Jersey. Born in Seattle, Hart now lives and works in New York.


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