Regina Valluzzi, The Nerdly Painter
ArtistUSA
About Artist:
Dr. Regina Valluzzi has a scientific background in nanotechnology and biophysics. She has been a scientist in the chemical industry, a research professor, a start-up founder, and a science-themed artist. She is primarily an autodidact, but had lessons in art and visual theory from a formally trained artist parent. She has become expert at finding art lessons in any activity involving visual information.
The principles of scientific research, applied to the creation of art, yield novel techniques and unique and interesting artifacts.
As a practicing scientific researcher in condensed matter physics and nanotechnology for many years, Dr. Valluzzi brings unique insights to her art. Careful research and experimentation combine with artistic inspiration in her current body of “Reinvented Landscape” paintings. By exploring the properties of viscoelastic fluid flows, dispersion, convection and diffusion through the medium of acrylic paint and compatible media, Valluzzi has developed a number of very novel ways to apply acrylic paint and mix it with other media. Her mixed media pieces achieve unusual and detailed naturalistic patterns and textures through the unique qualities of each medium incorporated, combined with the physical properties of the acrylic system.
Elusive phenomena, such as elastic flow instabilities and the onset of chaotic turbulence, can be seen frozen into crystal clear acrylic films. These phenomena are then used to create the illusion of flowing turbulent water, naturalistic plant textures and other landscape features. Dr. Valluzzi’s main research thrusts as a scientist involved significant use of advanced microscopy and imaging technologies, along with a deep understanding of optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, scattering and lensing. This understanding of the optical properties of materials also informs her approach to mixed media, allowing her to create works that capture the physical properties of the scenes depicted along with their appearance.
Dr. Valluzzi has always held a strong interest in the visual arts, allowing visual arts ideas to permeate her technical work and vice versa. She was educated in Materials Science at MIT, obtaining a second B.S. degree in music and a minor in visual studies. Her PhD thesis at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst requiring advanced microscopy, image analysis, and theoretical data modeling. These experiences provided the visual insights and experiences that inform much of her work as an artist.
About Artwork:
There is a prevailing notion that sculpture, installation, and video media are active and interactive, while painting and 2-D wall mounted forms are static and passive. Yet in the past 2-3 decades, there have been a number of advances in smart materials, responsive materials, and optically novel materials that can be incorporated into painting. The acrylic painting system itself has undergone radical changes and advances in properties and potential since it first gained traction among Fine Artists in the mid twentieth Century. These new materials and advances allow very different approaches to painting. Through experiments with the properties of different acrylic paint and media formulations Valluzzi has added complex 3-dimensional textures to paint. Using these experiments she has also been able to create delicate layered patterns of color that are not achievable with a brush or palette knife.
A number of these “paintings” approach landscape ideas using new ways of manipulating paint media. Grasses and stems created by pouring one liquid into another on the canvas, extrusion, diffusion, and textural ideas can all suggest and indicate landscape elements. These approaches create an image that isn’t put together quite the same way as a typical landscape. The image is built up through paint interactions and bits of media standing in for objects, rather than as an illusion created by brush and palette knife marks.
Acrylic is compatible with a number of materials for mixed media work. Valluzzi’s approach to different media is also unique, experimental, and sensitive to the properties of her materials. In each of her “Reinvented Landscape” subjects, media are chosen with properties that somehow mirror the properties of landscape elements depicted. Stiffened string and paper depict the bark and branches of a tree while simultaneously calling attention to the way these materials entwine, layer and span space. These dichotomies between the appearance of mixed media in depiction of a scene and the active and dimensional properties inherent in the media create a dynamic tension between the “picture” created and the very structural elements involved in the process of creation.
Regina Valluzzi
Alive
- 2016
- 30 x 36 inches
- Fine Art Category: paintings
- Origin: USA
- Provenance: Offered by artist. Exhibited at Leaf, Paper, Twine solo exhibition in Gloucester MA
- Signed: Not signed
- Comments:
Signed and dated on the back - on the canvas. The edges are painted black and the work is wired with D-rings and picture wire. It is ready to hang unframed for a contemporary look, or you can always frame it to suit your decor.
Acrylic with stiffened string and paper on 1.5 inch deep stretched canvas (heavy duty wood supports).
This is an oversized work (from a shipping standpoint). While I cannot offer free shipping, I can split the shipping costs to most locations. Please inquire to work out the details. I can ship to Europe, USA, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia, UK, and to most countries in Central and South America, Africa and Asia - please inquire.
Alive is a tree made from sculpted paper and string. The sculpted media are built up over a detailed acrylic painting. A specialized acrylic medium (archival) is used to moled the fiber media. They have dried into stiff forms and are more resilient than they appear.
Line shapes, colors and forms in the painting echo the shapes created by paper and string and vice versa. This echoing creates a seamless integration between the sculpted subject and painted background. String and paper are ideal materials for mixed media inventions in the style of Van Gogh and other post Impressionist painters. The curves, contrasts and planes of these media capture essential qualities of the Old Masters brushwork, and embody them in three dimensions.
Direct link to this piece in my artist shop: http://www.dreaminglines.com/product/alive-original-acrylic-and-mixed-media-painting/
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- Price: $4,500.00 USD
- Seller: Regina Valluzzi, The Nerdly Painter, USA
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About Artist:
Dr. Regina Valluzzi has a scientific background in nanotechnology and biophysics. She has been a scientist in the chemical industry, a research professor, a start-up founder, and a science-themed artist. She is primarily an autodidact, but had lessons in art and visual theory from a formally trained artist parent. She has become expert at finding art lessons in any activity involving visual information.
The principles of scientific research, applied to the creation of art, yield novel techniques and unique and interesting artifacts.
As a practicing scientific researcher in condensed matter physics and nanotechnology for many years, Dr. Valluzzi brings unique insights to her art. Careful research and experimentation combine with artistic inspiration in her current body of “Reinvented Landscape” paintings. By exploring the properties of viscoelastic fluid flows, dispersion, convection and diffusion through the medium of acrylic paint and compatible media, Valluzzi has developed a number of very novel ways to apply acrylic paint and mix it with other media. Her mixed media pieces achieve unusual and detailed naturalistic patterns and textures through the unique qualities of each medium incorporated, combined with the physical properties of the acrylic system.
Elusive phenomena, such as elastic flow instabilities and the onset of chaotic turbulence, can be seen frozen into crystal clear acrylic films. These phenomena are then used to create the illusion of flowing turbulent water, naturalistic plant textures and other landscape features. Dr. Valluzzi’s main research thrusts as a scientist involved significant use of advanced microscopy and imaging technologies, along with a deep understanding of optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, scattering and lensing. This understanding of the optical properties of materials also informs her approach to mixed media, allowing her to create works that capture the physical properties of the scenes depicted along with their appearance.
Dr. Valluzzi has always held a strong interest in the visual arts, allowing visual arts ideas to permeate her technical work and vice versa. She was educated in Materials Science at MIT, obtaining a second B.S. degree in music and a minor in visual studies. Her PhD thesis at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst requiring advanced microscopy, image analysis, and theoretical data modeling. These experiences provided the visual insights and experiences that inform much of her work as an artist.
About Artwork:
There is a prevailing notion that sculpture, installation, and video media are active and interactive, while painting and 2-D wall mounted forms are static and passive. Yet in the past 2-3 decades, there have been a number of advances in smart materials, responsive materials, and optically novel materials that can be incorporated into painting. The acrylic painting system itself has undergone radical changes and advances in properties and potential since it first gained traction among Fine Artists in the mid twentieth Century. These new materials and advances allow very different approaches to painting. Through experiments with the properties of different acrylic paint and media formulations Valluzzi has added complex 3-dimensional textures to paint. Using these experiments she has also been able to create delicate layered patterns of color that are not achievable with a brush or palette knife.
A number of these “paintings” approach landscape ideas using new ways of manipulating paint media. Grasses and stems created by pouring one liquid into another on the canvas, extrusion, diffusion, and textural ideas can all suggest and indicate landscape elements. These approaches create an image that isn’t put together quite the same way as a typical landscape. The image is built up through paint interactions and bits of media standing in for objects, rather than as an illusion created by brush and palette knife marks.
Acrylic is compatible with a number of materials for mixed media work. Valluzzi’s approach to different media is also unique, experimental, and sensitive to the properties of her materials. In each of her “Reinvented Landscape” subjects, media are chosen with properties that somehow mirror the properties of landscape elements depicted. Stiffened string and paper depict the bark and branches of a tree while simultaneously calling attention to the way these materials entwine, layer and span space. These dichotomies between the appearance of mixed media in depiction of a scene and the active and dimensional properties inherent in the media create a dynamic tension between the “picture” created and the very structural elements involved in the process of creation.
