Look at these process-minded non-representational works! Antoine Bridier-Nahmias’s Magical Contamination series is delicate in texture and very varied — some tense and thick with white, the hues almost undulating and some a sparse, organic arrangement of specks and spores. The abstract compositions suggest a controlled invasion of space, a quietly creeping force…
It’s as if they weren’t painted but grown, billowing chemically through their tiny round canvases.
It’s almost as if someone grew some mold in petri-dishes, took pictures and put them on Tumblr.
San Fransisco artist Klari Reis created these vivid abstract paintings, using petri dishes as her canvases. The colorful, psychedelic patterns do have a certain bacterial quality to them, and seem to have been inspired by the biological roots of their cylindrical homes. The range of depth and texture she manages…
Students at the University of Surrey in the UK taking a Practical and Biomedical Bacteriology course imprinted their smartphone screens onto petri dishes with grow media to see what kind of bacteria was lurking. Three days later, they found #art. The colorized result are not just alluring abstract designs, there…
For his project Bacteriograms, Finnish photographer Erno Erik Raitanen wanted to see if he could grow a microbiological culture on film instead of in a petri dish. The experiment was a success. The bleeding, abstract images of Bacteriograms are "self portraits," in the biological sense: he created them by rubbing his own saliva on large-format,…
