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Klari Reis and the Art of Science

Artist Klari Reis creates art in Petri dishes.  Like the cultures you would expect to find there, the daubs of colour bloom, bleeding paint seems frozen in time, whisps and tendrils reach across the glossy surfaces reminding us of past science lessons and images from under the microscope.  The desire to peer closer is inevitable.

This is art and science on two levels.  Not only does the art look like biological forms but the artist Klari Reis experiments with the reactions of acrylics, oils, dyes and epoxy polymer to achieve these mesmerising effects.

In the UK all art teachers talk about turning STEM into STEAM.  STEM subjects in schools are Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. You turn it into STEAM by adding ‘Art’.  What would a curriculum be without art?

I’ve been talking to Klari Reis about her work and she’s provided some great information for us and our students.  She has also kindly contributed images for an official, artist-approved, presentation for art teachers, including a script, to use in the classroom.

I asked Reis what inspired her to make art in petri dishes.

“Twenty years ago I became very ill with Crohn’s disease, an autoimmune disorder. Visually, with my paintings, I was t

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For all the strange things artists have turned into canvasses, Klari Reis manages to stand apart. Since 2009, she's been perfecting the art of painting in petri dishes.

Reis is currently nine months into "The Daily Dish," an on-going series that has her making a new three-inch artwork every single day of 2013. All the images have the same sort of look–blobs, swirls, and whorls of color that could either be a really beautiful thing seen through a microscope or a really beautiful thing seen through the Hubble space telescope. Still, as with those biological and celestial wonders, no two are exactly alike. "Sprinkled on Marble," the painting for September 5, looks like a fantastic array of mold. "Blurred Lines," from August 23, looks like some spilled milk viewed through a kaleidoscope. "Snowballs Resting on a Vibrant Plateau," from July 25, looks, well, like just that.

This isn't Reis's first stab at daily dishing; she created a new petri dish painting for every day of 2009 as well. And at this point, she's figured out many of the quirks of her unique medium. When she first started working with epoxy polymer, the substance in which her paints float, in 2003, "there were a lot of unknowns,&