Piece description from the artist
Joy bubbles up, spins and spreads in orbits. I've always considered "joy" as a distinct emotions, different from happiness. Joy is durable, elusive and hard won. An abstraction using muted colors that slowly morph into something brightly bubbling and joyful, yet nuanced.
Orbits is a continuation of a series of experiments using marker drawings in saturated layers on the reversed side of the paper. As the layers of marker bleed through the back of the drawing and interact, the color areas on the drawing side are softened, and the overlayed colors and behavior of the pigments and dyes creates sharp edges of color, on a similar scale to the line traceries in the ink portion of the drawing. Prismacolor art marker and Pigma “micron” pigment ink ultrafine felt tip pen.
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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