Piece description from the artist
A rocky seascape and shoreline painting. Breakers uses layers of clear acrylic gel media tinted with blues and zinc white to create a shiny, complex and deep seafroth. the rocks were sculpted in 3-D impasto using spheres and discs of clear and colored glass to build up dimensionality. The deep sea was created using layers of clear blue acrylic raked into rippling wave patterns. The overlapping clear ripples create a p[attern of waves with enough three dimensionality to really give the impression of distant waves on water. A combination of painting, scumbling, liquid into liquid, specialized pouring techniques and acrylic extrusion were combined with glass, mica and other light manipulating media to create "breakers"
The original is sold.
PRINTS: AI was used to create a larger and less noisy image of the painting. Because AI learns typical and expected patterns, it does affect the details in a painting (but so does photographing or scanning). It adds brushstrokes and detail, often at impossibly small scales. Within a brushstroke colors become flatter, messy edges are curved, and textures are replaced by painterish renderings. Mixed media creates some odd effects too. In this case my glass spheres appear painted in, for example.
While some of the fine details are different from a photo of a painting, at most human scales it looks like a good sharp image of my painting. Rendering the mixed media creates a better print than a photo of different media, in my opinion.
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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