- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
The entry deadline is 5 p.m., Dec. 15, announced entomologist-artist Diane Ullman, UC Davis professor of entomology and co-founder and co-director of the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program. Artists selected will show their work in the Pence Gallery from Jan. 26-March 2.
The goals of the exhibition are three-fold: to show creative work that explores the intersection between art and science; to foster communication between the arts and sciences, and to spark new ways of viewing the world and ourselves, according to Ullman and Pence Gallery director Natalie Nelson. The organizers encourage "creative work that transcends pure scientific illustration to explore the conceptional realm where art and science both reside."
All artists and scientists, regardless of residence, can exhibit up to three works. This refers to original 2D and 3D work in any medium, related to the intersection between art and science. It encompasses photography, drawing, textiles, painting, sculpture, video and mixed media. Dimension restriction is at the discretion of the jurors.
Artists will upload their submissions online at http://www.pencegallery.org. A vital part of the submission is the artist's statement--not to exceed 100 words--which should clearly explain how the work relates to the art/science connection. The statement may be displayed with the accepted work. Work must be available for the entire run of the exhibit.
To enter, access http://www.pencegallery.org and click on "Call to Artists" to apply directly to the site. Entry fees are $35 and $40, respectively, for Pence and non-Pence members. Fees will be used for expenses and awards related to the exhibition. No hand-delivered art work will be accepted. Accepted work may be hand-delivered or shipped and insured by the artist to the Pence Gallery, 212 D St., Davis, CA 95616.
Jurors are Jiayi Young, a UC Davis assistant professor of design, and Helen Donis-Keller, Ph.D., the Michael E. Moody Professor of Biology and Art at Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Mass. Both Young and Keller have exhibited nationally and internationally, fusing art with science.
Young holds a master's degree in fine arts (multimedia and painting) from Washington State University, Pullman, Wash.; a master of science in atomic physics from Kansas State University, Manhattan; and a bachelor's degree in fine arts and physics, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisc. She works in the field of digital media with an emphasis on the cross-disciplinary areas of design, integrating art and science with cutting edge technology.
Keller who integrates the fields of art and biology, holds a master of fine arts in Studio Art from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University, and a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University.
The Consilience exhibit will be displayed in the Pence's Main Gallery's glass tower lit space, measuring 1000 square feet with 12-foot ceilings. The Pence, established in 1975, is a non-profit art gallery. Its mission is to educate and inspire the community by exhibiting high caliber art by local and regional artists, according to director Natalie Nelson.
The calendar:
Dec. 15: Entry deadline online by 5 p.m.
Dec. 28: Notification via email
Jan. 19-20: Drop off between 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., or deadline for shipping arrival
Jan. 26-March 2: Exhibit dates
Feb. 9: Reception from 6 to 9 p.m.,with awards ceremony at 8
March 3-4: Pick up work, 12 to 4:30 p.m.
Sales are encouraged. The Pence Gallery will retain a 50 percent commission on work displayed at the exhibit.
For more information on the exhibit, contact Nelson at (530)-758-3370 or penceartdirector@sbcglobal.net
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
The next LASER-UC Davis event, or Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous, is set for Thursday night, Aug. 7 in Room 3001 of the Plant and Environmental Sciences building, UC Davis campus. Sponsored by the UC Davis Art Science Fusion Program, it will begin with socializing and networking from 6:30 to 7 p.m., and then followed by four presentations, announced coordinator/moderator Anna Davidson, an instructor for the UC Davis Art Science Fusion Program. The event is free and open to the public.
The program:
7 to 7:25:
Eve Warnock and Kate Harrington, “We Are HERD: Exploring Animal and Human Herding Behavior Through Research, Scenario and Performance”
7:25-7:50:
Frank Pietronigro, “The Expansion of the Arts, Humanities and Culture in Space Exploration
7:50-8:10
Break. (During the break anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work).
8:10-8:35
Robert Buelteman, “Energetic Photogrammetry: A History of Photographic Technology”
8:35-9 p.m.
Robert Edgar. “Animating the Memory Theatre”
9 to 9:30: Discussion
About the presentations:
Eve Warnock and Kate Harrington
Eve Warnock is a multimedia artist who melds ancient techniques of art-making with modern technologies. She is a costume and set designer as well as a director for live performances and films. She received her bachelor of arts degree in arts and humanities from The Ohio State University, and a master of fine arts from UC Santa Cruz's Digital Arts and New Media program. Her work explores the boundaries of human and animal relationships, dissecting primal instincts as a way to reconnect humans with each other and to the animal kingdom. Her work has been shown all over the United States in diverse venues, from the street to the museum, from the gallery to the guerrilla.
Frank Pietronigro
Frank Pietronigro, an interdisciplinary artist, will provide a general overview of some of the groups, individuals and institutions involved in expanding the presence of the arts, humanities, and culture within the context of human space exploration while emphasizing the change of acronym from STEM education to STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Music and Mathemetics). He will discuss his role as director of the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium and his current project: Space Wishes.
Pietronigro has flown twice under reduced gravity conditions, in 1998 and 2006, when he created multiple works using the media of painting, drawing, dance including microgravity drawings while blind folded, microgravity mobiles, kinetic text and graffitti based zero-gravity video works, drift paintings and dances in reduced gravity conditions.
Robert Buelteman
Robert Buelteman says that “As the medium evolves so must the artist." He creates unique energetic photograms inspired by Japanese ink-brush paintings and improvisational jazz. This includes high-voltage electricity and hand-delivered fiber optic light.
His journey as a photographic artist began in 1973 and has continued through multiple residencies including the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Santa Fe Institute, and Stanford University. During that time he worked in black and white landscape photography, ran a successful commercial studio in San Francisco's south-of-Market area, and now, using high-energy electrical discharges and fiber-optically delivered light, makes what he calls “Energetic Photograms.”
His art has received accolades from institutions as diverse as the U.S. Congress, the Commonwealth Club of California, Committee for Green Foothills, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. In recent years this art has been the subject of essays in 23 languages on six continents around the globe, and can be found in public and private collections worldwide, including the Yale University Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers, Bank of America, Adobe Systems, Stanford University, Xerox, and Nikon.
Robert Edgar
In his abstract, Robert Edgar, a senior instructional designer at Stanford University, says: "I introduce early memory theatre strategies, my own work with computers and memory theaters, and then my current work with my Simultaneous Opposites engine. The history of memory theaters provides analogs for the process of art itself. I'll show how I've worked through them to create a personal aesthetic.”
Edgar creates and employs software engines to examine mediated artifacts forged at his zone of proximal development. Robert's computer-based art engines include MERGEEMERGE (2013), Simultaneous Opposites (2008 – present), The Duchamp Examinations (2006), Memory Theatre Two (2003), Sand, or How Computers Imagine Truth in Cinema (1994), Living Cinema (1988), Memory Theatre One (1985), and Intersticies (1972). Robert holds an MFA from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. He grew up in Cocoa Beach, Fla., during the birth of the NASA Space Program (1958-1970).
The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program was founded by entomologist/artist Diane Ullman of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and self-described "rock artist" Donna Billick.
The Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a series of lectures and presentations on art, science and technology. Founded in 2008 by LASER Chair Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST, LASERs are now presented at a number of venues: University of San Francisco, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz and a New York Studio.