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Artist Talk: Tarah Rhoda

About

Tarah Rhoda received her BFA in 2010 from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and also studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. She is currently based in Brooklyn and is the manager of the SVA Bio Art laboratory, where she researches live materials and explores the intersection of art, science and technology. Yanking at the micro and macro, her work investigates the body as a miniature world—one with landscapes, weather, and systems of self-maintenance that produce a spectrum of minerals and artifacts. Her most current project investigates the remarkable relationship between chlorophyll and hemoglobin.

Talk: Artist Tanya Chaly in Conversation with Scientist John Petrini, PhD

About

Tanya Chaly was born in Sydney, Australia and currently lives and works in New York City. She is a visual artist and works across a variety of mediums using painting, drawing and printmaking. In her practice she examines ideas of the Natural World; the history of Natural Science, notions of nature and classifications of Wilderness and the fetishization of Nature. Currently she has been looking at Ecosystems, both the macro and micro relationships within these systems. She creates layered and involved worlds drawing on a wide range of influences from Gothic, Primitivism, Eastern Philosophy, Psychology, and the Natural Sciences.

John Petrini, PhD, is the Chair of the Molecular Biology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute and the Director of The Functional Genomics Initiative. His research focuses on the repair of chromosomal breaks and the activation of the DNA-damage-induced cell-cycle checkpoints. Dr. Petrini received his PhD from University of Michigan Medical School.

Artist Talk: Richelle Gribble

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Richelle Gribble is a Los Angeles based artist who creates mixed media paintings and drawings, prints, videos, puzzles and sculptures that contemplate the intersection of humanity, technology, and nature. Richelle has exhibited at solo shows in Los Angeles, New York, Japan, and international orbit around Earth etched on 2 rockets and 4 satellites as part of her conceptual series Overview. Winner of 2016 Grand Prize Award for solo exhibition and representation at JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY with inclusion in Art Market San Francisco, Texas Contemporary, and Miami Project. Richelle has completed 13 art residencies as part of her project The Nomadic Artist, where she travels the world to reflect social and environmental changes across the globe.

Spontaneous Emergence of Order: Opening Reception

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BioBAT’s inaugural art exhibit, Spontaneous Emergence of Order, featured four interdisciplinary artists who create works based in science and technology. These artists approach their practices like a scientist, incorporating deep research, observation, exploration, and experimentation. Their works connect us all to the natural world and our place in it and their journey lends beauty and understanding to the abstract.

Exhibition Dates

January 4, 2019 – March 15, 2019

Exhibiting Artists

Tanya Chaly, Tarah Rhoda, Magdalena Dukiewicz, Richelle Gribble

Curated by

Elena Soterakis & Jeannine Bardo