The MAC will present artist Suzanne Anker for an art talk and discussion of the current exhibition, While Darkness Sleeps.

From microscopes to video animations to time-lapse photography to rapid prototyped sculpture, While Darkness Sleeps is an ode to nature's delicacy and decay. While high technology tools extend our vision to access sites yet unknown, at the same time such intrusions can be dire.

While Darkness Sleeps brings together underwater motifs of animals that look like flowers, "vanitas" in Petrie dishes inspired by art history, porcelain sponge sculptures that appear as coral or meteorites, and high tech 3-D extruded sculptures which reference tiny wondrous landscapes.