Reflection Series: Paintings

Paintings are made from photographic information gathered with a fluorescence microscope of various materials that reflect and surround my life. Then The images carefully recreated with acrylic paint on stretched canvas.

10 Day Contemporary Art Exhibition 11.03.09-11.12.09

Presented by Steve Herrmanns Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 5th 2009 5-9pm Seattle Art Walk

Duration of the Exhibition: November 3rd - November 12th 2009 11 - 6pm Daily

Location of the Exhibition: 121 Prefontaine Place South, Seattle, WA 98104

(In the TK ALl-Arts Building in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square District)

Fluorescence Microscopy:

A fluorescence microscope is an optical microscope used to study properties of organic or inorganic substances using the phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence instead of, or in addition to, reflection and absorption. The "fluorescence microscope" refers to any microscope that uses fluorescence to generate an image, whether it is a more simple set up like an epifluorescent microscope, or a more complicated design such as a confocal microscope, which uses optical sectioning to get better resolution of the fluorescent image.

All fluorescence microscopy methods share the same principle. A sample is illuminated with light of a wavelength which causes fluorescence in the sample. The light emitted by fluorescence, which is at a different, longer, wavelength than the illumination, is then detected through a microscope objective. Two filters are normally used in this technique; an illumination (or excitation) filter which ensures the illumination is near monochromatic and at the correct wavelength, and a second emission (or detection) filter which ensures none of the excitation light source reaches the detector. Fluorescence microscopy takes a fundamentally different approach to generating a light microscope image compared to transmitted or reflected white light techniques such as phase contrast and differential interference contrast microscopy. These two contrasting optical microscopy methods give very different but complementary data.

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