Piece description from the artist
Grasslands is a textured abstraction of a flowering meadow with different colored flowering plants and grasses arranged in groupings. The visual patterns from different species' shapes and growth habits are abstracted into textured paint and textural elements. The result is a recognizable landscape with the colors of a spring field. At the same time the piece is an abstract play on color juxtaposition, textural pattern and irregular geometric forms.
This version used digital manipulation and layering to create a large high resolution file with overlaid transparent versions of the original photographic capture (of an acrylic painting). This approach is true to the original painting composition and color and texture ideas. However the close-up details reveal a complex interplay of transparent shapes, adding a dimension to the abstract aspects of the painting.
The creation date is for the digitally layered version.
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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