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March 09, 2006
Patricia Olynyk
Patricia Olynyk teaches print media and courses which examine the intersections of art and the life sciences at the University of Michigan. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design and a Research Associate Professor at the Life Sciences Institute. Her research interests are grounded in interdisciplinary practices that include printmaking, installation, biomedical imaging technologies, and sound. Her recent work is a response to a technology mediated world increasingly desensitized to physical sensation. With her large-scale works, she calls upon the viewer to expand their awareness of the worlds they inhabit, whether those worlds are their own bodies of the spaces that surround them. By incorporating her own scanning electron micrographs of transgenic and/or manipulated organic materials, she calls into question the ways in which human and non-human species are destined to evolve.
Olynyk's most recent interactive installation entitled Sensing Terrains is currently on exhibit at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. Her work has also been shown internationally in such exhibitions as Transfigurations at the Galleria Grafica Tokio, Ginza, Tokyo; the L.A International Biennial Exhibition at the Toby Moss Gallery, Los Angeles; Digital Printmaking Now at the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Mois de L'Estampe at Galerie Michele Broutta, Paris; and Paper Road at Museo del Corso, Rome. Her work is included in collections of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Hewlett Packard Headquarters in California, the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, and the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan.
Posted by gharp at March 9, 2006 11:19 PM