Marta de Menezes creates living works of art. For her first biological art work, Nature? (1999), she interfered with the natural growth and development of a butterfly's wings, creating never-before-seen patterns. In Tree of Knowledge (2005), she used live neurons to create growing, three-dimensional structures. And bacteria was utilized in Decon: Deconstruction, Decontamination, Decomposition (2007) to break down dyes in a painting whose color would eventually disappear.Ms. de Menezes is also the art director of Ectopia, an experimental art laboratory at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência in Lisbon, Portugal. She will be lecturing at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts on June 27, 2008.
View a work and read Ms. de Menezes' article in NY Arts Magazine:
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=200296&Itemid=747
Visit her Web site:
http://www.martademenezes.com/
photo courtesy marshlight, Creative Commons
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