Biotransmutations

Exhibition

Biotransmutations

June 15, 2017

Location: SVA Fine Arts Building
Opening reception: Thursday June 15, 2017. 6-9pm

Artists

Carolyn Angleton, Reid Arowood, Shuyi Cao, Maria Cau Levy, Tessa Ho, Alejandro De Las Noches, Sabrina Merayo Nuñez, Juliana Peloso, Tarah Rhoda, Masha Semenenko, Mark Woodbridge.

Larvae with lots of brown pellets around it, and white fuzzy cacoons in the foreground

Projects by participants of the Bio Art Summer Residency.

Installation with a TV screen installed in the center showing a bowl containing a living SCOBY culture embedded in twigs, and a sculpture of a pair of legs with ribs on top made of branches and moss on the left, there are some branches sticking out on the right

Tree branches form lines that mimic stained glass borders with white, beige, tan, and brown SCOBY stretched between the branches and rainbow lights shining through the back of the piece all in a light raw wood frame displayed on a pedestal.

Tree branches form lines that mimic stained glass borders with white, beige, tan, and brown membranes between the branches and rainbow lights shining through the back of the piece all in a black frame

Tree branches form lines that mimic stained glass borders with white, beige, tan, and brown surfaces between the branches and rainbow lights shining through the back of the piece

Installation with a bed of dirt, on top there is moss and some pebbles and flowers, a dinosaur, a pipe with a faucet attached, some mice, cigerette, a snow globe, and a toy truck, with a line of blue led lights on the outside around the installation, one part of the ground has hay, and the other side has sand and seashells as well as lobsters, fish, and various small figurines

Installation with a bed of dirt, on top there is moss and some pebbles and flowers, a dinosaur, a pipe with a faucet attached, some mice, cigerette, a snow globe, and a toy truck, with a line of blue led lights on the outside around the installation

Close up of a sculptural object shaped like a mummy on a scale on one side, and a skyscraper on the other end of the scale, there is a skull displayed next to it on the right, on a bed of hay

Installation with a bed of dirt, on top there is moss and some pebbles and flowers, a dinosaur, a pipe with a faucet attached, some mice, cigerette, a snow globe, and a toy truck, with a line of blue led lights on the outside around the installation, one part of the ground has hay, and the other side has sand and seashells as well as lobsters, fish, and various small figurines

A squirrel wearing a metal headpiece and holding a metal goblet with lobsters coming towards it, one lobster is holding the goblet, there is a sponge and a rock in the background, the figurines are on a bunch of hay

Portrait of Alejandro De Las Noche holding small binoculars and wearing a lit up head lamp

A blue microscopic shape that is round with tiny circular cell shapes, there is a dark maroon border, with blue and white cells inside, then another round maroon border, then more blue and white cell shapes in the center

A clear sheet of plastic with circles cut out of it hung up in front of a white walled corner, with a light projected on it to cast a shadow

A piece of clear material made out of bacterial cellulose with circles cut out is hanging with back lighting, in the background you can see white walls from a gallery with various other installations

A projector on a white pedestal projecting a mostly orange background with white cell like shapes on the right and left side

Six pieces of rectangular paper hung up by the two top corners with binder clips, in two rows of three, depicting horizontal bar graphs with various data filled in, the bottom right piece of paper displayed has text on the left side of the paper

Six pieces of wood with cellular like shapes cut out of them, they are displayed in two rows of three

Six blue square paintings with one white square painting hung on the wall above the middle painting on the right, with a short wide vase containing white roses on a white pedestal in front with a black text caption printed below the paintings on the wall and also on the front of the pedestal

Three square blue paintings hung up with black text printed on the wall below the paintings, from left to right the paintings are light blue, dark blue, and medium blue

Four paintings installed on the wall with caption in black text printed on the wall below it, the paintings are square, from left to right they are painted dark blue, medium blue, bright blue, and the fourth painting is white and installed above the medium blue one

Three square rose paintings hung on the wall with black text captions below each painting on the wall, from left to right there is a white and blue rose on a dark blue background, a cerulean blue and white rose on a dark cerulean blue background, a black/blue/white rose on a teal background

Square painting on a thick block of wood with gray sides hung up on the wall with black text below it printed on the wall that reads

White and blue rose painting on a dark blue background on a square piece of wood with a black text caption printed on the wall below the painting

Two prints hung up on the wall with binder clips on all four corners, with a white border depicting negatives of people working in a laboratory, the one on the right shows a woman reaching into a machine, and the one on the right shows a woman measuring something at a table on a scale

Negative print of a woman holding a tray and looking down at a work table in a laboratory

Six prints with white borders depicting negatives of people working in a laboratory, they are hung up against the wall with binder clips on each of the four corners

Seven small clear rectangular cubes installed horizontally coming off of a white wall, with a teardrop shaped flower petal on top closer to the wall, and a small round dot on top away from the wall, there is a shadow that is casted from the installation on the bottom on the wall, there is a graduated cylinder on a pedestal in front of the installation with tan liquid and brown substance settled on the bottom

Seven small clear rectangular cubes installed horizontally coming off of a white wall, with a teardrop shaped flower petal on top closer to the wall, and a small round dot on top away from the wall, there is a shadow that is casted from the installation on the bottom on the wall

Four prints are installed from rods coming out of the wall on the left, the prints are on transparent sheets and are red, pink, magenta, purple, and white, on the right there is one large print of magenta, white, and pink striations on a black background, it is pinned to the wall on all four corners of the print

A print hung up by a binder clip on the wall, there is a white border and a gray background with a bunch of flower petals lined up in a rectangular orientation and a flower with two green leaves on the bottom of all the flower petals

There is a projection with round sides, of a man with his eyes closed and four snails crawling all over his face, on the left and right of the projection there is a clear dome on each side installed against the wall with a snail terrarium inside, in front of this installation is a white pedestal with a green moss dome on it

There is a projection with round sides, of a man with his eyes closed and four snails crawling all over his face, on the left and right of the projection there is a clear dome on each side installed against the wall with a snail terrarium inside, in front of this installation is a white pedestal with a green moss dome on it

A tube filled with mycelium in the shape of a circle installed on the floor with nine mushrooms growing out of it evenly spaced throughout the circle

A tube filled with mycelium in the shape of a circle installed on the floor with nine mushrooms growing out of it evenly spaced throughout the circle

A white piece of rectangular paper pinned with round flat thumbtacks on the four corners, with black text in the middle shaped like a square

A chair and a desk wrapped in white with a laptop and some books on the desk, on the white wall around the desk are various white pieces of paper with notes and sketches as well as some brown specimen taped to the wall

Various notes and sketches taped to a while wall, they are mostly sketches and notes written on white/tracing paper, with a small yellow piece of paper on the lefy

Installation with a bonsai tree with roots and soil still intact hung from the wall, three branches vertically displayed in clear tubes, a metronome, a piece of wood, a print with brown shavings on it, a circuit board on a clear sheet of acrylic/glass, and a small fluid filled vial is also installed on the wall next to the bonsai tree

A clear sheet of acrylic or glass with a circuit board installed on top that is connected to a blue and white screen, there are wires coming from the circuit board that go out to the right

A square print with the letters

Installation in a gallery with a bonsai tree hung from the wall on the left, three tree branches are displayed vertically in clear tubes on the right, with a small piece of wood in front of it and a metronome to the left, there is also a piece of paper with some brown shavings on it to the right

Two flat glass round bottles, the one on the left has a dark brown spheres in it, the one on the right has an orange spheres in it, both on a white pedestal

Squirrel hanging upside down on a tree branch, with a blue and white projection in the background

A squirrel hanging upside down with a projection of blue, white, and black wispy lines in the background

A hanging basket on the top left with a figure standing in a white hooded robe and a blue, white, and black projection is projected over the person, basket and onto the white walls in the background

A hanging gray/brown basket on the right with abstract red, orange, purple, and blue projection projected onto it and the white wall in the background

An IV bag filled with green liquid and leaves connected to a syringe dripping into a beaker filling with red liquid, sitting on top of a pedestal with a metal frame around it

An IV bag filled with green liquid and leaves connected to a syringe dripping into a beaker filling with red liquid, sitting on top of a pedestal with a metal frame around it

An IV bag filled with green liquid and leaves connected to a syringe dripping into a beaker filling with red liquid, sitting on top of a pedestal with a metal frame around it

Close up An IV bag filled with green liquid and leaves connected to a syringe dripping

Close up of some jewel like pieces and a skinny tubing coming from the top left corner, the image is purple and pink

A silhouette of a person holding up a camera covered in layers of jewel like pieces on the bottom, and neon pink/purple lines drawn over with a black border

An electronic device in an acrylic box on top of a bed of dirt

Six electronic devices inside clear acrylic boxes sitting on a bed of dirt

Two identical images on four glass jars with silk cacoons inside them, the third jar to the left has water in it instead, shown on two Sony TV screens

A silk cacoon on pieces of wood with webbing around it, shown on a sony TV screen

Six photographs depicting silk cacoons and similar imagery lined up horizontally in a black lightbox hung on a gray wall