Piece description from the artist
A drawing in my series of compass and ruler assisted hand-drawn ink and silverpoint explorations. In some ways Predicting the Weathah brings to mind the mysterious and complex evolving weather models and maps we've had this Spring in New England. Different line widths, motifs, and patterns evoke the genesis of storms and weather events, the movement and cycling of different systems and the hairy messy complexity of the whole thing. When the meteorologist declares that Next week, something weather will happen in New England, somewhere in the region, maybe at the beginning of the week or the middle or near the end of the week, maybe rain, maybe snow, possibly just wind… and the next one declares "let's just forget about next week and talk about tomorrow.." … it's Springtime in New England. uh oh!
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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