Petri Dishes

Artist Dasha Plesen combines molds, bacteria, spores, and other objects in petri dishes to create these colorful abstract

Try as we might, no human artist can ever come close to matching the brilliance and creativity of nature. But some, like Moscow-based microbiology enthusiast Daria Fedorova, manage to harness nature’s wonders and arrange them into incredible compositions. Straddling the boundary between scienc ...

Life would be so boring without art. Even mother nature occasionally likes to express herself by creating something odd and unusual, which catches our attention by being extraordinary. Artistic expression always finds a way to surprise us, and today we would like to introduce you to a very unique collection of art pics.

BioArt has not yet been defined in a way that is accepted by artists. Some artists, for example, make DNA models and call that BioArt. To me, BioArt has to be art that contains and creates a living thing and an active process. To put it another way, the organism used has to sustain its life and development in/on the work. As Eduardo Kac puts it, “Works that illustrate biological subject-matter, in other words, DNA models, chromosome diagrams, human body models, videos, and photographs of…

Inspired by the art of natural occurrence, Daria Fedorova is a multidisciplinary artist, developing a peculiar methodology of artistic cultivation of microorganisms. Using different supplements her work is no less than a science lab experimentation with each work being distinct and unique.

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For every day in 2013 San Francisco based artist Klari Reis will be creating art within the confines of plexiglass petri dishes for a project called The Daily Dish, which is a continuation of a project she completed back…

Art in a petri dish by Klari Reis. The organic abstract shapes combined with the vibrant colors draws you in. Want to see more? (you know you do) check out a dish a day here.