Communicating complex scientific research ideas for curing lung cancer using North East Indian folklore and visual art

Unseen/seen—the duality of nature

Ancient landscapes

Protecting life

The landscape of congenital heart disease

Mannequin moods

Heart

Biomorphic garden party

Art under the microscope

Lost tribe, limited edition digital photographs of last of his tribe toads. (16”×24” or 20”×30”, 12/2012. Photographer: Dan Kvitka).

The chrysanthemum 1, Xuan paper.

LABYRINTH, Salt, 5 m ×14 m, Making Mends/Bellevue Arts Museum, USA, March toMay, 2012.

Jabulani Arts is a social enterprise founded by a group of talented young artists in Fort-Portal, Uganda, teaming up with development organizations including the Kabarole Research and Resource Centre and the private sector

This series of paintings are intended as a unique combination of medical illustration and classical figurative painting, showing the human form with swaths of anatomical underpinnings

In the series of sculptures titled “Synaptic Incubations of Another Kind”, Olga Alexander references biological systems.

Title: Small Worlds (detail II); materials: styrofoam, copper, wood; dimension: 3'×3'×3'; year: 2012.

The Human Element Project is a consortium of artists, scientists, educators and students who develop thought-provoking art installations that make powerful social statements about the connection between art and science.

Being uncomfortable in one’s own skin is an imminent passage from childhood to adulthood. But sometimes these perceptions become engraved in our identity, and the remnants of discomfort become part of our daily lives.

I find the heart to be one of the most fascinating organs in the human body because of the complex interplay between muscular activity and electrical coordination.

These works reflect on the ever-diminishing gap between engineering and medicine. “An Engineered Humanity” highlights ideas of regeneration, biocompatible prostheses, and micro implants.

This body of glass work has been developed since 2004. Made to contemplate the global impact of each disease, the artworks are created as alternative representations of viruses to the artificially coloured imagery we receive through the media.

Regina Tumasella was born amidst the soft grandeur of New York’s Catskill Mountains and has always been attuned to the natural world. A MICA graduate whose paintings were featured in a recent New York Times profile of the Baltimore art scene (https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/09/23/travel/20100926-SURFACING-2.html) her paintings clearly recall landscapes while remaining almost wholly abstract.

Cleveland, Euclid Avenue (Figure 1) is a painting in acryl colour on canvas in the scale 120 cm × 160 cm, made in 2007.

Ever since my father took me on my first walk in the woods, I simply felt ‘at home’. Since then I have loved to capture photographs of the details in nature, especially the abstract … looking “into” a flower or tree.