Artists at Work Forum: Studio as Lab

"Hands," photograph by the light of bioluminescent bacteria, Hunter Cole, 2010

Four Chicago-based artists -- Hunter Cole, Vesan Jovanovic, Josh Kurutz and Peter N. Gray --  discuss how they combine processes and investigations more common to scientific inquiry into their studio art practice.  
 
This Artist at Work Forum is part of Studio Chicago.

Josh Kurutz is a Senior Research Associate at Northwestern University, specializing in Nuclear Molecular Resonance (NMR).  In his artistic practice, he has created innovative audio, video, sculpture and visual art that correspond to fragrances, hormones, genes and molecules, and other physical phenomena.

Hunter Cole is an artist and a geneticist who reinterprets science as art through abstractions, digital art and installations. She holds a Ph.D. and Master's degree in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and teaches biology and art at Loyola University Chicago.  Her class, Biology Through Art, enables students to create innovative artworks in a biology laboratory.  Cole's recent Living Drawings Exhibition featured controlled line drawings made using bioluminescent bacteria that become collaborators in the art as they grow and dies.

Vesna Jovanovic is a contemporary visual artist whose creative process involves the use of randomness coupled with meticulous deliberation, often exploring concepts of time, merging dualities, and science. Jovanovic holds a BA in Fine Arts and a BS in Chemistry from Loyola University Chicago, a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA degree in Photography is from The Ohio State University. Her artwork has been included in over fifty exhibitions since 2003, including solo exhibitions at the University of Chicago Gordon Center for Integrative Science, the International Museum of Surgical Science, and the Riverside Arts Center and she has been featured in magazines and blogs including Time Out Chicago, Newcity, Seed, Art:21, and Discover.

Peter N. Gray is a sculptor and multi-media artist who references the aesthetics and concepts of genetics, microbiology and physics in his studio practice.  His studio, Metal-i-genics, studies android genomics.

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