Piece description from the artist
Pensive Waters – original is acrylic with glass, mica, pumice, calcined granite, and acrylic based stucco on 3 inch deep cradled birch wood panel with sanded edges. Signed on back. 30 inches x 30 inches.
Pensive Waters is a seascape that captures the light and colors of the magic hour, the transition between daylight and night time. A challenge in creating this piece was controlling the color and pattern of the depicted light while using experimental pouring techniques and transparency with mixed media. Clear tar gel and self-leveling clear gel were used to create the complex patterns in the waves, with much of the gel left transparent. Layering of different transparent colors and pours over raked patterns and light manipulating media creates some unique effects and presence in the piece.
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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