Rebecca Rustein was featured in Artblog's Podcast in the Midweek feature for her solo exhibition: All the Stars in the Sea on view at Bridgette Mayer Gallery.
Listen at the 3:59 minute mark to hear host Roberta Fallon describe her personal tour with Rebecca:
Roberta Fallon: Started out on Friday with a visit to Bridgette Mayer Gallery with Rebecca Rutstein, who’s the artist who’s show is up right now. And if you don’t know, Rebecca has done a lot of naval, oceanic exploration, traveling with a science crew studying/mapping the ocean floor. (She’s been the artist on scientific expeditions, working with and living with the scientists on the ship and she makes art on the ship distilling her experience of the science and the visuals.)
She said she’s been on these big ocean exploring vessels eight times, and she’s been down to the bottom of the ocean three times in a submersible. And she showed some snapshots. She said the last time they went down, they didn’t know what they were going to run into, but they ran into — I mean, not literally colliding with — but they saw what’s called a vent at the ocean floor where there are several plates coming together or separating and all this molten material that looked like a volcano coming up, up, up and dispersing into the water. What’s coming up through the vent is hot, dangerously hot, like 400 degrees. It’s from the core of the earth. It’s iron and the other metals that are coming up, and then dispersing. They go all the way to the top of the ocean and float around to the other side of the ocean and feed microbes over in Singapore or somewhere. The ship she was on was off the coast of Mexico.(Note: This is not a scientific description!)
It sounded really psychedelic actually to experience something like that firsthand. And then she was distilling it. She made 30 days worth of pictures for the 30 days she was on the boat. She only went down in this submersible once this time.
Ryan deRoche: What an amazing experience.
Roberta Fallon: Totally amazing. I think life changing, could be. She’s really very passionate about doing this. The whole art and science combination completely feeds her. And she’s made these beautiful, large and small paintings, which are on display at Bridgette Mayer Gallery, now through Oct. 19. We had a wonderful, sprawling conversation about art and science and I’ll be writing it up soon. She’s definitely a notable artist in Philadelphia. So if you don’t know about Rebecca, I would suggest you go see her show at Bridgette Mayer Gallery.
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