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Weekend
Friday, December 6, 2022
Exhibition
of prints shows that science and
art aren't mutually exclusive
Blood
Series No. 36 by Charlotte Yudis
Inquirer
Art Critic
None of the 16 previous "Art in
Science" exhibitions at University City Science Center has defined that
concept as eloquently as the current show of prints by Charlotte Yudis in the
Esther Klein gallery.
Her etchings use biological material as subject
matter, especially blood cells and plant parts.
Sometimes Yudis' sources, especially human blood
cells, are evident. Yet I found the more representational pieces among the 30
prints to be the least effective.
Not that essentially pure science can't be
beautiful, because her images of it are. But I prefer more transformation, and
in most of the photo-based prints, both color and black-and-white, Yudis
provides it.
Often she does so by doubling or even
quadrupling an image on the paper. Blood Series No. 36 is a prime
example, a four-part composition that resembles an expressionist landscape.
Some prints are colored, but never
extravagantly. Yudis makes color lush and luminous without making it loud, even
with hot hues such as pink. As a result, her recipe for scientific art, or
artful science, produces ethereal beauty as well as perfect equilibrium between
fact and imagination.
Esther
Klein Gallery, 3600 Market St. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.
Through Dec. 27. 215-387-2262 or www.kleinartgallery.org.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/weekend/4675947.htm