Piece description from the artist
Rhythmic geometries of color and shape underpin strange abstracted devices that appear to assemble themselves from the painted textures.
The title is a play on nanotechnology, which is alluded to in the small shapes spanning the blocky areas of color. This reflects some of the visual ideas and design ideas in everything on a chip technology. To work at the nanoscale a technology still needs to reference and plug into the microscale of existing technology and the human scale of users.
At the same time there is a rhythmic juxtaposition of shapes and colors reminiscent of music, with geometric chords built up and transitioning and related melodic lines skipping over and spanning the chords. It reminds me a little bit of Mozarts eine kleine nachtmusic, and the color scheme is cool night and a little night music. I could not resist the pun set up between a little night music and even littler nano night music.
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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