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48 x 60 inches
Oil on Canvas
Painting may be picked up at Pleiades Gallery, 547 W 27th St., NYC before July 6
This oil painting is part of the Visualizing the Unseen series of paintings. Visualizing the Unseen developed out of my work in Synergy II, a two-year collaboration between the Art League of Rhode Island and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. The project paired scientists with artists to create a “common language” using art to communicate the science.
My science partner was Noah Germolus, a Chemical Oceanographer in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. The paintings explore Noah's research into ocean chemistry and metabolite availability in various zones of the ocean’s water column.
Through this collaboration, I learned about his work, his data collection zones, and abstract concepts behind the basic chemical elements of life.
The collection zone represented here is surface water far out from the coast of Bermuda. This is a place where we rarely find the interrelated communities of activities found in coastal surface water. Molecules get used up, break down, and bleached out in the relentless sunlight, creating a sense of an “ocean desert.” The imagery of waves and currents was actually drawn from microscopic images of bleached bones on a desert.
48 x 60 inches
Oil on Canvas
Painting may be picked up at Pleiades Gallery, 547 W 27th St., NYC before July 6
This oil painting is part of the Visualizing the Unseen series of paintings. Visualizing the Unseen developed out of my work in Synergy II, a two-year collaboration between the Art League of Rhode Island and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. The project paired scientists with artists to create a “common language” using art to communicate the science.
My science partner was Noah Germolus, a Chemical Oceanographer in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. The paintings explore Noah's research into ocean chemistry and metabolite availability in various zones of the ocean’s water column.
Through this collaboration, I learned about his work, his data collection zones, and abstract concepts behind the basic chemical elements of life.
The collection zone represented here is surface water far out from the coast of Bermuda. This is a place where we rarely find the interrelated communities of activities found in coastal surface water. Molecules get used up, break down, and bleached out in the relentless sunlight, creating a sense of an “ocean desert.” The imagery of waves and currents was actually drawn from microscopic images of bleached bones on a desert.