{"id":3045,"date":"2025-05-15T10:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:38:06","slug":"piece-of-my-heart-a-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/2025\/05\/15\/piece-of-my-heart-a-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Piece of My Heart: A Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>May 16 &#8211; October 26, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Closing Reception: Thursday, October 16, 2025, 4 &#8211; 7 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"une_library_gallery_link_block-block_ba35738af556776cfd32379d546632c9\" class=\"une_library_gallery_link_block layout- alignleft\"><a class=\"link-block\" data-fancybox-delegate=\"gallery-block_ba35738af556776cfd32379d546632c9\" href=\"javascript:;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/collected-into-memories-720x720.jpg\" alt=\"Aliza Sternstein, Collected into Memories, oil on canvas\" \/><span class=\"title\">Selected Images<\/span><\/a><div class=\"gallery-images\" style=\"display:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/collected-into-memories-scaled.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-block_ba35738af556776cfd32379d546632c9\" data-caption=\"Aliza Sternstein, &lt;i&gt;Collected into Memories&lt;\/i&gt;. Oil on canvas.\" data-alt=\"Aliza Sternstein, Collected into Memories, oil on canvas\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/Hamachertsui-5-1-2-scaled.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-block_ba35738af556776cfd32379d546632c9\" data-caption=\"Sophie Hamacher, &lt;i&gt;Heartbreak 1 and 2&lt;\/i&gt;. Silkscreen prints, 18 x 24.\" data-alt=\"Sophie Hamacher, Heartbreak 1 and 2, silkscreen prints.\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/Ford-Windsor-for-card-scaled.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-block_ba35738af556776cfd32379d546632c9\" data-caption=\"C. Michael Lewis, &lt;i&gt;Ford Windsor&lt;\/i&gt;. Acrylic on panel, 22 x 40\u201d, 2016.\" data-alt=\"C. Michael Lewis, Ford Windsor. Acrylic on panel.\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through the media of film, printmaking, sculpture, sound, and painting, artists Sophie Hamacher and Aliza Sternstein plumb the possibilities&nbsp;of describing the heart outside of the boundaries of symbolic image.&nbsp;Hamacher\u2019s interdisciplinary work (presented here in the form of an immersive installation, from which the exhibition title is derived) creates a carefully-calibrated space of inquiry and discovery around the motif, while Sternstein\u2019s process-oriented, materially expansive paintings provide an emotive counterpoint.&nbsp;As an anchor to the exhibit, Hamacher\u2019s 2025 film&nbsp;<em>Visio Cordis&nbsp;<\/em>explores the topic of&nbsp;Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (or broken heart syndrome) from both medical and symbolic perspectives.&nbsp;<em>Piece of my Heart: A Laboratory<\/em>&nbsp;looks at heartbreak as a lived experience that is simultaneously physical and emotional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 16 &#8211; October 26, 2025 Closing Reception: Thursday, October 16, 2025, 4 &#8211; 7 p.m. Through the media of film, printmaking, sculpture, sound, and painting, artists Sophie Hamacher and Aliza Sternstein plumb the possibilities&nbsp;of describing the heart outside of the boundaries of symbolic image.&nbsp;Hamacher\u2019s interdisciplinary work (presented here in the form of an immersive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[60,62,63,64,59,61],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biddeford-campus-art-gallery","category-exhibits","tag-aliza-sternstein","tag-broken-heart-syndrome","tag-heart","tag-heartbreak","tag-sophie-hamacher","tag-takotsubo-cardiomyopathy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}