(left) Art & Science Collaborations, Inc., Director, Cynthia Pannucci, with Art Murphy, beside his photographic studies of prehistoric, pelagic, Devonian fossils, found in the Hudson River Valley of upper New York State.

Part of an ongoing series of exhibitions organized by the Art and Science Collaboration at www.asci.org

The theme is chemistry, in any of its artful manifestations:

“The images in Digital`11: The Alchemy of Change echo the centuries-long struggle of chemistry to find effective modes of visualization. Alchemical imagery often sought to locate chemical transformation in a cosmic perspective, making the unfolding of creation a chemical process couched in allegory. Alchemy’s schematic symbolism of the elements became John Dalton’s atoms. Today, fuzzy micrographs rub shoulders with computer-rendered molecules and abstract depictions of electron orbitals. They are all here, reminding us how important visual codes have been in chemistry’s efforts to convey what can’t be seen.”

—Philip Ball, writer, author and exhibit co-juror

“The sheer variety of the works produced by all the artists highlights exactly what ASCI wanted – to open the public’s eyes to the nature of chemistry. Not just the chemistry found in laboratories so secluded from our day-to-day lives, but something active all around us and more than that – something we can find inspirational. The works which make up the final exhibition illustrate how many different strands branch out from this initial concept, and it is this diversity which made judging this competition all the more difficult but all the more interesting. The works which caught my eye were those which took on a playful or personal approach.”

–Robert Devcic, owner/curator, GV Art, London Gallery

(right) ARTES publisher, Richard Friswell, with Helen Glazer, ARTES contributing writer and photographer, beside one of her hand-colored, Cloud Series, photographs.

Exhibit runs until February 5, 2012 at the New York Hall of Science, in a beautiful, re-purposed, post-modern building on the grounds of the 1964 World’s Fair in Flushing, Queens, NY.