This gallery contains our most current work that was exhibited at Serrano Contemporary in Chelsea, NYC in February 2009.  Check out our blog for current shows and events.

Bacteria Prints  We print the cultivated images from agar to paper and encase these bacterial “still-lives” in resin.  With particularly compelling images, we continue growing the original petri dishes, or re-print the original design onto fresh agar.  Both methods produce  “replica paintings” that resemble the original yet are unpredictably distinct because random biological processes control where the paint grows.  We compile related replica paintings into single works – studies of natural variations on a theme.

Cyanotypes   Many of our images began as a collaboration with the sun -- whereby the shadows of plants were traced to create a template for the bacteria.  When we wanted to enlarge some of the bacteria prints, we decided to return to the sun as collaborator, and created cyanotypes, a.k.a. “sun prints” of selected bacteria prints. (These have their own variations and are the white images on a range of prussian blue grounds)