Kara Hearn
A Problem of Courage
May 9 - June 14, 2008
Opening Reception:  Friday, May 9, 2008
6-8pm

A Problem of Courage is an installation of video and other works by Kara Hearn that takes a look at the way travesties large and small, imagined and real, mediated and lived hang about. She builds intimate and absurd narratives to animate the ways that fear, regret, grief, horror, and humiliation play themselves out before and after the fact, shifting in and out of consciousness, repeating endlessly, and being re-made along the way.  This exhibit will be on view in DiverseWorks Project Space from May 9, 2008 – June 14, 2008 with an opening reception on Friday, May 9, 2008 from 6 - 8pm. Also, opening at DiverseWorks that evening will be Stephen Vitiello’s Four Color Sound. Both receptions are free and open to the public.

About Kara Hearn
Kara Hearn is an interdisciplinary video artist. She makes quiet and absurd work about the way tragedies reside in the head; the way heroisms play out in the mind’s eye, the inside place where stories get conjured, dreamed, remembered. Dithering between melodrama and deadpan, her videos end up degrading mainstream cinema by being too sincere, too simple, telling too many stories with very little stuff. Hearn’s work has been screened and exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as White Columns, The Luckman Gallery, Pacific Film Archive, New Langton Arts, Southern Exposure, the Walker Art Center, Dallas Video Festival, Women in the Directors Chair International Film and Video Festival, and the Festival Tous Courts International Festival of Cinema. She recently received an MFA from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

For more information on Kara Hearn, click HERE! 

Above image is a still from Kara Hearn's One Thing After Another (2007)