Doilies (SARS), Laura Splan, 2004, lace sculpture based on SARS-CoV-1 coronavirus.
Conformations, Laura Splan, 2019, still from video of alpaca fiber spinning.
Lumen, Laura Splan, 2019, rug made with hand spun laboratory llama and alpaca wool / laboratory soundscape on headphones. Photo Courtesy of Esther Klein Gallery.
Tickling the Bonds, Laura Splan, 2019, generative animation with molecular visualization software.
Photo by Sasha Charoensub.
We are pleased to host Laura Splan as our first artist in residence at BioBAT Art Space during our COVID-19 pause in exhibition programming. Laura Splan is a Brooklyn-based artist whose transdisciplinary work intersects biology, technology, design and craft. Her conceptually-based work mines the materiality of science to reveal poetic subjectivities, invisible structures, and hidden labor. Her mixed media artworks integrate artifacts and tools of biotechnology, including the wool of laboratory llamas and molecular modeling software. Her recent research examines the complexity and precarity of both natural and built systems that have been brought to the fore during the current global crisis. During this experimental residency, Laura will create site-specific artworks that respond to the pandemic and to the gallery’s proximity to the biotech laboratories at BioBAT Inc.
Unraveling: New Animations by Laura Splan
August 15, 2020 – March 14, 2021
Laura Splan is a Brooklyn-based artist whose transdisciplinary work intersects science, technology, design and craft. Her biomedical themed artworks have been commissioned by The Centers for Disease Control Foundation, Gen Art New Media Art Exhibition, and Davidson College. Splan's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Arts & Design and Beall Center for Art + Technology and is represented in the collections of the Thoma Art Foundation, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the NYU Langone Art Collection. Reviews and articles including her work have appeared in The New York Times, Discover Magazine, Hyperallergic, American Craft and Frieze. Splan has received research funding from The Jerome Foundation and her residencies have been supported by The Knight Foundation, The Institute for Electronic Arts, Harvestworks, and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She has been a visiting lecturer at Stanford University teaching interdisciplinary courses including “Embodied Interfaces”, “Data as Material” and “Art & Biology”. She is currently a Creative Experiments track member at NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator. She is also collaborating with biotech company Integral Molecular on a new series of molecular modeling animations in a remote bioart residency at the uCity Science Center supported the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation.
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