CREATORS – Madge Evers

January 14, 2019 artthescience Communication, Education and Outreach

You know what they say: a picture’s worth a billion spores. Massachusetts-based artist Madge Evers works in a surprising medium: mushroom spore prints. Each of her exquisite works starts with a fungal form—either grown in her garden or foraged from the woods and fields that surround her home. Evers gently places her muse upon her canvas, then waits until the specimen starts to release its spores. These tiny objects—about 16 billion of them in a typical field mushroom—float through the…

BITS: Negative Capability by Dove Allouche

December 21, 2018 artthescience Communication, Education and Outreach

Ambrotypes, heliogravures, and photolithographs—artist Dove Allouche seems to have a passion for long words and complex photographic techniques. His latest exhibit, Negative Capability, is on at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, BC, until December 30 and features a stunning and varied array of works. Allouche expressed a desire to “make visible that which otherwise remains unseen, hidden or buried” and this comes through in his photographs. With more than twenty pieces spanning 2009-2018, the exhibition…

BITS: Stories & Structures – New Connections

December 18, 2018 artthescience Communication, Education and Outreach

Microscopes meet Indigenous art in Stories & Structures – New Connections, a new exhibition touring through Australia until March 2019. The show weaves together micrographs of natural phenomena with stunning paintings by Indigenous artists from across the country, revealing unexpected and striking similarities. The two sets of images, both of which are used to pass on knowledge and shape our understanding of the natural world, reflect and refract each other, offering a new look at…

WORKS – WUNDERKAMMER by Renee Robbins

December 11, 2018 artthescience Communication, Education and Outreach

Renee Robbins is a Chicago-based visual artist. She creates otherworldly environments that investigate the complex relationships between humans, nature, and the cosmos by layering biomorphic forms. Her works feature intricate details and striking colour palettes. In her series Wunderkammer, Robbins presents her compositions in radial view. Is there an underlying theme that connects these works? Paintings in this series are like a cabinet of curiosities that offer diverse collections of wonder. Each work focuses on a…

BITS – Happy Halloween SciArt!

October 31, 2018 artthescience Communication, Education and Outreach

Happy Halloween SciArt lovers! Enjoy our picks for this spooky theme: Robert J. Lang BROWN WIDOW HP, OPUS 585 Trinley Dorje Say Ahhhhh Stephanie Medford Eye Sculptures Federico Carbajal Corazon Cuadrado, 2009 Caitlin T. McCormack Paul Hollingworth Juana Gómez Share this Post

BITS – Mini Series by Beauty of Science

October 10, 2018 artthescience Communication, Education and Outreach

Created by filmmaker and photographer Wenting Zhu, Mini Series leaves us awestruck as we are propelled into the microscopic world of chemical reactions. This project is among many other captivating films from Beauty of Science, a studio that creates inspiring content for science education and outreach. “The microscope can be used not only for scientific observation, but also for artistic creation. I mixed pigments with other chemicals in a small petri dish, recorded their movements and shapes through the microscope,…

WORKS – Herman Kolgen’s ISOTOPP at MUTEK Montreal

September 5, 2018 artthescience Communication, Education and Outreach

Herman Kolgen is a multimedia artist based in Montreal, Canada. His performance-based work ISOTOPP made its North American debut at Mutek Montreal this August. ISOTOPP is the culmination of a recently completed two year artist residency at the Large National Heavy Ion Accelerator (GANIL) in France. Here, researchers study heavy ions colliding with their target nuclei, travelling at speeds up to 1/3 of the speed of light. Kolgen’s performance aimed to conceptualize the research led by…

WORKS – Bee Works by Sarah Hatton

July 27, 2018 artthescience Communication, Education and Outreach

Sarah Hatton is a contemporary Canadian visual artist who creates paintings and installations inspired by the natural world. Hatton blends together art, math and activism in her thought-provoking series, Bee Works. What inspired you to create Bee Works? Bee Works is a series of mixed-media pieces that raise awareness of honeybee colony collapse and pollinator decline. In these works, I have arranged thousands of dead honeybees in mathematical patterns that are symbolically linked to monoculture…

FEATURES – Science Rendezvous

June 23, 2018 artthescience Communication, Education and Outreach

Imagine having someone reveal a world that was right under your nose the whole time. Well, in case you missed it, that’s exactly what we did on May 12th at Science Rendezvous Kingston. This event was just one out of over 300 events that took place all across Canada in celebration of all things science and engineering. Art the Science was thrilled to be a part this public outreach event particularly because this year’s theme…

BITS – The Matrix of Water by SaySay.Love

May 10, 2018 artthescience Communication, Education and Outreach

Artist SaySay.Love captures the beauty and power of water in his latest exhibition “The Matrix of Water“. “For me, photography is both an intentional and a spontaneous medium. My works strive to disseminate the idea that water has a memory and forces us to look back at the past (as birth), and ahead to the idea of the waterless future as death itself. But it’s not that simple and clear cut. Water shapes history. It…

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