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Prismacolor art marker and Sakura micron pigma felt tip fine line pen on acid free hot press watercolor paper. Freehand, no computer assistance.
"Trio" is inspired by the moody landscapes of artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt.
I sought to create an homage rather than copying their styles. Several ideas are an homage to Schiele – the color scheme, mood, level of abstraction and trees in silhouette. The change of media, from his acrylic painting to my marker and pen work, completely changes how the colors and imagery work. My homage is more open and panoramic and also more finely detailed than his highly textured and intimate (though much larger) paintings.
The process of creating homages that are not too close to another artist's style is informative. It requires making changes and many small aesthetic decisions to fuse the old idea and my own new contributions.
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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