Terri Dilling, Warm Little Pond, acrylic,Connecting the Dots Workshop starts
this Saturday, April 21 at 2 pm, following a gallery lecture
Participants get to experience printmaking as well as drawing and painting, to create a grouping of molecule-inspired designs. They will then cut and assemble these elements into a movable, molecule-like structure, and take home their creation.
Join us at noon for a mini reception then stick around for a science and art talk at 1 pm
and the workshop at 2.
This will be a great day and fun for all ages.
Terri Dilling, Little Worlds 2, intaglio on paper.
Photo courtesy of Terri Dilling
In Connecting the Dots’s statement, Dilling compares the artist’s mission to that of the scientist in that both question the world around them, what it is made of, and how it works. She writes, “Chemistry has caused me to look at my art in a new way, seeing atoms and molecules in the work, reacting with each other and bonding to form more complex shapes and clusters.” The resulting work begins with her Little Worlds print series, which uses imagery from microscope slides of molecules. Black and white representations of molecules streaked with what seem like synapses and blood vessels are printed in exact circles and ovals, like a tissue sample on a slide or perhaps a porthole view into an interior world. The works are a somewhat literal translation of molecular forms into art and seem as sterile as slides in a lab, though perhaps that was Dilling’s intent.
Check out Lilly Lampe's entire review of Connecting the Dots on BURNAWAY
