Landscapes of Today's Science
July 9 - December 9, 2007
Curated by Cynthia Pannucci
for Pfizer Headquarters, NYC
(exhibition on executive floor, not open to public)
ARTISTS:
Martyn Bouskila, Deborah Cornell, Mara Haseltine, Ellen Jantzen, Susan Munoz, Patricia Olynyk, and Jody Rasch
Mara Haseltine: Those Could be Anything: Stem Cell Mandala
2007, 48" x 48" x 2"; digital print on archival paper
Deborah Cornell, Species Boundaries: Sea Change, 2006
26" x 22", digital print on paper
Since the earliest time in recorded history, possibly with the cave paintings at Lascaux, France, man has used technology to visually describe his world. Today, our known world stretches far beyond what we can see with the "naked eye" to the smallest forms of living organisms on planet Earth as well as life-forms located light-years away in our solar system. Similarly, simple drawing instruments have been eclipsed by increasingly sophisticated and powerful imaging technologies.
Martyn Bouskila: Postcard from Monera No.60: Gossamer Thin
2006, 25" x 21", lacquer on panel
The artists in this exhibition, members of a nonprofit group founded in 1988 called Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI), draw their inspiration from microbiology or physical phenomenon present in the environment in which we live. Their aesthetic interpretations of what today's scientific research reveals to us can remain scientifically accurate, as in the works of Patricia Olynyk, Jody Rasch, and Susan Munoz; or sometimes becomes a stretch of the imagination as with the series, Postcards from Monera by Martyn Bouskila, that depicts the micro organisms of a fictitious place called Monera; or both, as with Mara Haseltine's Stem Cell Mandala. And some of these interpretations are more challenging, as in the work of Deborah Cornell, who comments on the implications of interacting species and colliding natural systems.
Ellen Jantzen: Nano Field #570, 2004
20" x 20", digital print on paper
In all cases, the fascination of these artists with what today's technology allows us to glimpse of our world at the beginning of the twenty-first century, is rapidly becoming a rich new art genre - the landscapes of today's science.
Susan Muñoz: Invasion, 2005, 42" x 17"
marker and Xerox transfer on parchment
Patricia Olynyk: Orb, 2006, 46" x 46"
Epson 10000 archival print on glossy photo paper
Jody Rasch: Fever/Rabies, 2003
22" x 30", pastel on paper
MORE INFO ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Martyn Bouskila: http://www.martynbouskila.com
Deborah Cornell: dcornell (at) bu.edu
Mara Haseltine: http://www.calamara.com
Ellen Jantzen: http://www.ellenjantzen.com
Susan Munoz: www.susanmunoz.com
Patricia Olynyk: http://art-design.umich.edu/faculty/
slideshow.php?facID=polynyk&fullname=Patricia%20Olynyk
Jody Rasch: http://www.raschart.com
This exhibition was curated by Cynthia Pannucci, founder and director of ASCI, a nonprofit organization based in New York City. ASCI's purpose is to raise public awareness about artists and scientists using science and/or technology to explore new forms of creative expression and to increase communication and collaboration between these fields. ASCI members are an international group of artists, scientists, technologists, professors, writers, curators, gallerists and others working in or fascinated by the intersection of art, science, technology and the humanities.
www.asci.org
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