Published: October 01, 2009 08:53 pm      

Star Gallery features exhibit of digital art

FROSTBURG — The Star Gallery, located in the General Art Store, 19 E. Main St., will host a collection of digital artwork by Frostburg and Frederick resident Lisa Sheirer. The exhibition will have a gallery opening and reception on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. during the Frostburg Arts Walk.

The work completed for the “Flowers” exhibition is a collection of macro photographs shot while bike riding on the Allegheny Highlands trail (part of the Great Allegheny Passage) between Rockwood, Pa., and Cumberland. The photos are extreme close-ups of wild flowers native to the area.

Sheirer is an associate professor and program manager of computer graphics and photography at Frederick Community College. She has a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting and printmaking from West Virginia University and a master of fine arts degree in sculpture from the University of Notre Dame.

Sheirer has been a graphic designer for 30 years and has been working as a digital printmaker since 1990. Design clients include the District of Columbia Arts Center and the Maryland Department of Transportation.

She recently completed a mural installation for the Baltimore-Washington International Airport and has been commissioned to produce artwork for the new Western Maryland Health Center in Cumberland. Over the last two years she has had solo exhibitions of her digital prints in Frederick, Washington and Clarion, Pa.

The exhibit and opening are open to the public Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call (301) 689-1234.