San Francisco-based artist Klari Reis is creating a new Petri dish painting every day in 2013 for her Daily Dish project. Klari uses the creative process of both painting and science in this mesmerising project. Patternbank love the unnatural but beautiful textures, shapes and random pattern Reis is creating in this optical exploration. See more of her Petri dish art here.
Jeffrey Simmons takes inspiration from astronomical imagery similar to that produced by the Hubble Space Telescope. ”The gridded paintings were directly derived from comparative illustrations common to many astronomical textbooks, while the more random-seeing arrangements of circular patterns were intended to be evocative of wide astronomical surveys such as the well-known Hubble Deep Field.” Patternbank love the almost stained glass appearance where light and colour appears to glow behind a texture of intense dark paint. See more of Simmons work at Jefferysimmonsstudio.com
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William Mark has in immense fascination with looking at magnified objects and finding beauty that the unaided human eye is unable to see without the aid of modern cameras and lenses. It’s incredible the amount of detail, pattern, texture and complexity William is able to reveal in these beautiful images. He certainly is a scientist with a flair for art. Check out his Flickr page for many more microscopic masterpieces.
Sarah Walker’s acrylic works on paper and panel are a complex mix of abstract shapes, organic patterns and intricate geometric structures. Walker is interested in how we scan and process information overload nowadays. Her lattice-like structures suggest blood vessels or crystals and rocks. In her words “I intend my paintings to operate as tools for perceptual recalibration. In them conditions exist for the viewer to process several systems at once. Patterns and diagrams found within the sciences, nature and architecture form the basis of imagery.” Walker lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. See more of her work at sarahwalker.org
These simplistic, but intricate drawings by Kat Masback have captivated Patternbank . Kat is a visual artist originally from Clarksville, Maryland currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her works explore the issues of language, memory, space, mapping and their combinations. Her simple use of geometric shape and colour create mesmerising images . View more of her extensive portfolio on her Flickr site.
Erno-Erik Raitanen, a Finnish artist created these Bacteriograms (love that word) by cultivating his own bacteria samples on a colour negative film. As Raitanen explains “The bacterium destroys the film surface producing photographic images that are created by chance. The artist is removed from the process but, still at the same time, they are a product of the artist’s body.”
