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Helen Donis-Keller
About the artist
Helen Donis-Keller, Migraine Series # 1, charcoal on paper (30" x 44"), 2000. © 2005 Helen Donis-Keller
Helen Donis-Keller, Migraine Series # 2, charcoal on paper (30" x 44"), 2000. © 2005 Helen Donis-Keller
Helen Donis-Keller, Migraine Series # 3, graphite on paper with photograph collage (30" x 44"), 2000. © 2005 Helen Donis-Keller
Helen Donis-Keller, Migraine Series # 4, charcoal on paper with photograph collage (30" x 44"), 2000. © 2005 Helen Donis-Keller
Helen Donis-Keller, Migraine Series # 5, charcoal on paper (30" x 44"), 2000. © 2005 Helen Donis-Keller
Helen Donis-Keller, Migraine Series # 6, charcoal on paper (30" x 44"), 2000. © 2005 Helen Donis-Keller
Helen Donis-Keller, Migraine Series # 7, charcoal on paper (30" x 44"), 2000. © 2005 Helen Donis-Keller
Helen Donis-Keller, Migraine Series # 8, charcoal on paper with silk screen print collage paper (30" x 44"), 2000. © 2005 Helen Donis-Keller
"I started a new series of very large charcoal drawings that are based on the migraine headaches I suffer from, as my grandmother did. As a part of the diagnostic procedure, I had CT scans and MRIs. These drawings that I'm working on now are a combination of the CT scans and a portrait of my head. I'm working them together, still following the idea of the Helen heads, but now with more interiority."
(http://www.genart.org/genome-keller.htm, August 14, 2002)
Helen Donis-Keller, HH-4-2BWT/HH-6-DB, hand-woven digital print on watercolor paper (24" x 32"), 2003. © 2005 Helen Donis-Keller
Helen Donis-Keller, HH-4-2T/HH-M63B, hand-woven digital print on watercolor paper (24" x 32"), 2003. © 2005 Helen Donis-Keller
Helen Donis-Keller, HH-66-8T/HH-3-4B, hand-woven digital print on watercolor paper (24" x 32"), 2003. © 2005 Helen Donis-Keller
Helen Donis-Keller, HH-66-8T/HH-66-8B, hand-woven digital print on watercolor paper (24" x 32"), 2003. © 2005 Helen Donis-Keller
"The slides show some of my migraine inspired art. Each 'phenotype' piece was constructed from two different prints that were cut then hand-woven together to form a single image. They are named according to biological conventions that are used to identify strains, clones, etc. This series developed from a single progenitor image, my identification card photo, which was scanned into a computer at different resolutions and made into photolithography plates. The resulting images were further manipulated by drawing, painting, adding collage elements, and by weaving the images together. Video frames were made from some of the completed images, then processed through a video animation program, giving rise to a new generation of images that were subsequently modified, printed, and woven together. The four images shown above represent a small fraction of the phenotype images produced as part of an ongoing series. The images are printed with archival inks on Epson watercolor paper."
(Email to Klaus Podoll, February 12, 2004)
About the artist"Helen Donis-Keller is an artist who interrupted her studies of art with twenty years as a molecular biologist. She has been keeping a foot in both camps for the last few years, with a studio and a laboratory in St. Louis, where she was Professor of Genetics at Washington University, and in Boston, where she is now studying at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. A long-term project is a series she calls 'Helen Heads,' interpretations of her own image derived originally from a picture taken for identity purposes for Sam's Club, a membership discount store. 'I haven't seen any interest in exploring [genetic science] amongst any of the artists I know. It makes me sad, because we traditionally have looked to our artists as interpreters. And how can you interpret something you don't understand? So I think it is an [important] issue. One thinks about the genome project and all that will lead to in the coming decades.'" (http://www.genomicart.org/helendonis.htm, August 14, 2002) |
References
Monaghan P. The Fine Art of Engineering. The Chronicle of Higher Education August 2, 2002, p. A40.
Author: Klaus Podoll
Last modification of this page: Monday March 14. 2005
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