In an exhibition of portrait paintings of microscopic life molecules, Michal Gavish exposes tiny structures obscured from the eye.
On canvases and tiny and large-scape paper, alluring colorful epigrams, vibrating lines, abstract forms and a video installation, Michal Gavish demolishes, in her unique style, the buttressed walls between science and art.
Gavish, a former chemist-scientist, joined a group of scientists from Stanford and Tel-Aviv University, to immortalize the atoms, bound together by chemical links that are the foundation for the formation of life. Gavish the artist does not map or research the molecules; rather, she is enchanted by them. Capturing an elusive molecule is the product of hours of lab sessions spent observing through the microscope’s tiny eye, and later its artistic expression in the studio. Thus, Gavish carries on Leonardo Da-Vinci and Albrecht Durer’s artistic/investigative tradition. A tradition learning and describing life through observation, intelligence and sensitivity.
Gavish the explorer grasps the beauty and charm of invisible chemistry, casting into the works the intensity of her curiosity and her fascination in face of the miracle of life’s genesis. Unlike portraits of living images where the painting’s resemblance to the object can be judged, here, the observer is unable to decide whether she managed to capture their molecular forms, accurately conveyed their colors, proportions and outline, but he believes, excited and becomes a partner of her enthralling experience.

In collaboration with Tel-Aviv University: Prof. Ehud Gazit, Dr. Lihi Abramovich, Zohar Arnon, Aviad Levin, Talia Shekhter Zehavi, Dr. Tal Yehuda, Or Berger.

And Stanford University: Prof. Onn Brandman, Brian Alford, Joseph Park, Cole Citron, Laura Persson, Zoe Davis; Prof. Adam Frost, and Janet Iwasa, University of Utah.

Curator: Hana Coman
Closing: 05.12.15