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Sept. 30, 2006 - Jan. 15, 2007
The New York Hall of Science
Organized by
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)
Curator: Cynthia Pannucci, ASCI Director
Artist Reception: Sept. 30, 2-4pm
 
  
Doilies [a series of five images], 2004
computerized machine embroidery with thread, velvet, wood, plexiglas
16.5" x 16.5" each framed; edition of 10 + 2 AP
[From top, left , above;
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Hepadna Virus
Herpes Virus
SARS Virus
Influenza Virus
Doilies is a series of computerized machine embroidered doilies mounted on black velvet. The design of each doily is based on a different viral structure. The lace doily has traditionally referenced designs and motifs from nature. Furthermore, these decorative objects would be heirlooms, handed down from one generation to the next. The work explores the “domestication” of microbial and biomedical imagery. Many recent events, epidemics, and commercial products have brought this imagery into our living rooms, kitchens, and bathrooms. Bio-terrorism, SARS, and antibacterial soaps alike have all heightened our awareness of the microbial world. Doilies serve as a metaphor for the way we have adapted our everyday lives to these now everyday concerns. Here domestic artifacts and heirlooms manifest the psychological heredity of our cultural anxieties.
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Bone Plates, 2005, 12” h x 12” w [with details]
blood, archival pigment inkjet print on Tuscan Rag fine art paper
Bone Plates is a series of inkjet prints on watercolor paper combined with drawings. The photographic inkjet images are of various surgical bone plates used to assist in healing skeletal fractures. The drawings are rendered on top of the prints with a fine pen using a small amount of blood collected from the artist’s fingertip. The delicate nerve-like forms are entwined among the surgical bone plates, a synthesis of the organic and inorganic.
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Thought Patterns, 2003, 12” h x 12” w
blood on watercolor paper
Thought Patterns [above] and Reflexive [below] are drawings inspired by neuroanatomical structures. Each was drawn with a fine pen using a small amount of blood collected from the artist’s fingertip as an ink-like medium. They are a formal exploration of the elements of our body that tell us we sense pain or pleasure. We respond to these sensations in a way that we often have no control over. Bleeding itself is an involuntary response of sorts to the penetration of the skin. The images evoke the complex psychological and physiological responses our body has to outside forces. The forms serve as visual metaphors for the extreme intricacy and delicate fragility of the human body.
 
Reflexive, 2004, 40” h x 40” w
blood on Arches Aquarelle watercolor paper
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