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ART - SCIENCE
6:30 am
Thu September 29, 2011

UMSL exhibition explores the nexus of art and science

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Credit (Terry Suhre, director, UMSL Gallery 210)
Artist Brigham Dimick with part of “Waxworks 2,” a series of three self-portraits that include observation hives with live honeybees.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
“Waxwork 2: Observation Hive #2,” 2007. A jar with sugar water at the bottom left provides food for the bees.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
Close-up of Waxwork 2. Dimick exchanges the live bees for new ones every week, so that no individual bee is on display for more than a few days at a time.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
Artist Greg Edmondson with a number of his graphite drawings, collectively titled “Simple.”
Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
Close-up of an Edmondson drawing. Edmondson says he wants to make it difficult for the viewer to choose a focal point in his work.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
A sculptural piece by Edmondson, entitled “Empty Gesture,” 2009. Pencil, vellum, tape, and staples.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
Ronald Leax with works in his “The History of Culture Series,” 2011, which is an homage to great microbiologists from the 17th century to the present day.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
Close-up of Leax’s work entitled “Robert Koch, 1843-1910, “One Microbe, One Disease.” The petri dishes contain dyed agar and penicillin molds that were once alive.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
This sculptural work by Leax includes a sheep's brain contained in a laboratory flask.
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There’s an unusual art exhibition going on right now on the campus of the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

The exhibition showcases three artists from the St. Louis region whose work blurs the lines between art and science.

St. Louis Public Radio’s Véronique LaCapra talked with the artists and the show’s curator, and produced this sound portrait of the exhibition.

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