Recent Newsletter: Celebrating Art and Science at the Broad and more

Read my most recent newsletter about "Celebrating Art and Science at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard" and the upcoming exhibit, "Charting the World: Subjective MapMaking" at the Suffolk University.

Library
Deaccessioned card catalog cabinets from the Harvard Fine Arts Library,
Petri dishes, laser cut vellum, lab tapes, and various lab tools in the drawers.
2016 - 2017

Currently installed at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Celebrating Art and Science at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

My work is being included in this group exhibition featuring works by past and current Artists-in-Residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. I'm happy to be finally showing my work at the place where I created them during my Artist-in-Residence. I'm showing an installation entitled Library and several pieces from Inscription drawings (translocation of double-stranded passage).

I feel honored to be showing my work in a group of such talented artists, Daniel Kohn, Gupi Ranganathan, Maskull Lasserre, and Lucy Kim.

Broad Institute is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this year. This exhibit is a part of their Broad15 celebration. The exhibit is open by appointment only to the public. It is free, but must register on Eventbrite to make appointments.

Artists talk and reception is scheduled for January 14, 5-7pm at the Broad Institute, 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA. It'll be held on the 2nd floor connector area where the exhibit is. It should be a great event!

Upcoming solo exhibition, "Excerpts" at Babson College

I’m pleased to announce my upcoming solo exhibition, Excerpts at the Hollister Gallery at Babson College. The exhibit opens on September 12th. I’m showing a new iteration of my Artist-in-Residence projects at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, as well as two new pieces I have created this summer, including "Untitled (We still want to believe)". These works have never been exhibited, so I'm very excited to show my new work.

Excerpts (solo exhibition)
September 12 - November 1, 2019
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Thursday, September 12, 5-7pm
Hollister Gallery at the Sorenson Center for the Arts
Babson College
231 Forest Street, Wellesley, MA
Free and open to the public. *Reservation is encouraged.
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Excerpts, a new iteration of Naoe Suzuki’s Artist-in-Residence projects at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, is an exploration of interconnectedness between knowledge and belief in medical science. Suzuki incorporates magic spells from the Edwin Smith Papyrus, from 1,600 BC in Egypt, the earliest known medical papyrus to include prognosis. She extracts and sequences these archaic spells—indecipherable to the untrained eye—as formal visual elements, and invites viewers to read the unreadable. The artist traced the magic spells by hand, recalling the scribes’ handiwork in the papyrus, but used laser cutting to cut out these spells.

Suzuki contemplates our ancient convictions about medicine in a time when science, medicine, and technology are all accelerating at a rate that is unprecedented in human history. Bringing forth a forgotten treatise to the present, she asks us what is legitimate, what we may have lost, and what we still believe.

Watch the video about Broad Institute Artist-in-Residence.

Evening with the Artist at the Leventhal Map & Education Center on March 7th

Enlarged historical map is seen on the floor just before you enter 

the Leventhal Map & Education Center. 

Evening with the Artist at the Leventhal Map & Education Center on March 7th

I'm currently developing ideas for using historical maps from the collections from the Leventhal Map & Education Center for my workshop that's scheduled for March 7th. Using copies of historical maps of Back Bay, we'll explore Back Bay before 1857 and 1882. What happened to these years? Did you know that Back Bay was literally a bay before 1857? Massive landfill project began that year, and the present day Back Bay was filled by 1882. I'm looking through their online collection and finding many great maps for this workshop!

The workshop is free but registration is required. Participation is limited to 20 people. If you're interested, please register for the workshop.

"Our Evening with the Artist events invite you to look, listen and create. Look closely at art and map pairings in the Crossing Boundaries: Art // Maps exhibition at the Leventhal Map & Education Center. Listen to an artist talk. Create something inspired by the artist's work and process."