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Grand opening of the exhibition :
PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE by
Margaret Niezgodka Oechsli
Margaret Niezgodka Oechsli.
Born and raised in Poland, and holding a Ph.D. in immunology from the Polish Academy of Sciences, Margaret Oeschsli in emerging as an important artist in the relatively new style of photography. Her work elicits the natural existence of art within science - at the microscopic level.
Margaret Oechsli is emerging as an important artist in the relatively new style of photography. Her work elicits the natural existence of art within science - at the microscopic level.
By varying the magnification, illumination and staining of the intriguing world beneath the normal threshold of human perception, Ms. Oechsli captures her vivid and powerful abstract images.
Her photographs filled October page of Nikon's "Celebrating 25 Years of Photomicrography" calendar, May page in 2006 Nikon's calendar, and also November page of 2009 Nikon Calendar. Her work was also published in a form of 52 pages calendar, and multi-image poster by Hamilton Printing in 2003. She is currently displayed in the $7.6 million "World Within Us" exhibit at the Louisville Science Center.
She is not using photomicrography in a traditional sense for scientific illustrations. For her the microscope is just a tool for creating new genre of visual art, "photomicrographic art". The intention is to find the artistic images existing in nature. Bring them to the surface.
Displayed on the "Vallejo Nocturno" and "No Recomendable" cultural websites, drawing comparisons to Miro and suggesting that such artist - well in advance of their contemporary scientist - may have "seen" the microscopic essence of Nature.
Article in the December 2005 issue of "New Physician" placed her "Minimalism" in the genre of Kandinsky, Pollock, Motherwell and Miro.
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