Piece description from the artist
Ink, silverpoint ground, metal foil and silverpoint on archival paper. Archival alcohol-based art marker was used to define geometries on the back of the paper. These soaked through to the front of the paper, creating a soft water color effect.
The front of the drawing was then finished by accenting with pigmented ink markers and pigment ink fine line pen drawing. Freehand and drafting techniques were used. Tinted metal point ground was painted into selected areas and ultrafine Silverpoint details complete the piece.
An interesting effect is achieved when metal point ground is carefully tinted and painted only in selected geometric areas of a drawing. When the silverpoint or metal point stylus is used to then create a line, the line is ONLY visible in the areas with painted-in ground. This creates broken geometries that reference different areas to each other.
The overall effect is one of steadily building complexity within an apparent simple crisp geometry. Hence the title.
Dr. Regina Valluzzi has an extensive scientific background in nanotechnology and biophysics. She has been a scientist in the chemical industry, a green chemistry researcher, a research professor at the engineering school at Tufts, a start-up founder engaged in technology commercialization, and a start-up and commercialization consultant.
Even during periods of intense activity as a scientist, Dr. Valluzzi has always held a strong interest in the visual arts and in visual information. While she majored in Materials Science at MIT, she also obtained a second degree in music and a minor in visual studies. Visual arts have managed to permeate her technical work; during her Ph.D in Polymer Science and Engineering at UMass Amherst, she completed a thesis that required advanced electron microscopy, image analysis, and theoretical data modeling. These experiences provided the visual insight and information that now influences much of her artwork.
Dr. Valluzzi’s work has been included in private collections across the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Dubai and Malta, and in the corporate collection of "Seyfarth Shaw" Boston law offices around Boston. She has a selection of pieces on loan to the MIT Materials Science and Engineering Department as indoor public art. Her accomplishments include having published thirty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, having made several scientific patents, having been a subject matter expert for an encyclopedia chapter, and having been invited to speak at science talks across the US, Europe, and Japan.
Her newsletter is a good source of ongoing information: http://eepurl.com/daiLQ
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