New Artwork Adorns Rinker Health Science Campus

October 16, 2014

The Escalette Collection has officially expanded into the new Harry and Diane Rinker Health Science Campus! Unveiled at the building’s grand opening yesterday, the pieces on display include new collection acquisitions by Kelsey Brookes and Elizabeth Turk, a recent donation by David Kiddie, as well as existing acquisitions by Peter Kogler, and Josef Albers.

New Acquisitions:

Kelsey Brookes
is a San Diego-based artist and a former biochemist who utilizes his science background as a reference in his current work. Brookes’ most recent series, displayed here, combines the artist’s knowledge of scientific drawing with bright color to explore the theme of molecular structure.

Kelsey Brookes

Samatha 11
, 2013

Acrylic on panel, 13″ diameter

Purchased with acquisition funds, 2014

Photo credit Philipp Scholz Rittermann

Kelsey Brookes

Samatha 2
, 2013

Acrylic on panel, 13″ diameter

Purchased with acquisition funds, 2014

Photo credit Philipp Scholz Rittermann

Kelsey Brookes

Samatha 3
, 2013

Acrylic on panel, 13″ diameter

Purchased with acquisition funds, 2014

Photo credit Philipp Scholz Rittermann

Elizabeth Turk
is best known for her delicate and dynamic sculptures, but she also creates drawings, photographs, and more. These x-ray mandalas were created while the artist worked under a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. By deconstructing rocks and shells, Turk arrived at compositions that challenge the historical permanence and solidity of stone sculpture.

Elizabeth Turk

16 Cone
, 2013

X-ray/Lightbox, 48″ x 48″

Purchased with acquisition funds, 2014

Elizabeth Turk

16 Murex
, 2013

X-ray/Lightbox, 48″ x 48″

Purchased with acquisition funds, 2014

Recent Donation:

David

Kiddie
is a sculptor and ceramics professor at Chapman University. His most recent clay sculptures consist of combined wheel-thrown orb shapes. This recent piece is an enlarged representation of microscopic bacilli in an ordered cluster formation.

David Kiddie

Bacilli Pom-Pom #2
, 2012

Ceramic Sculpture, 58″ x 22″ x 85″

Gift of the Artist, 2013

Existing Acquisitions:

Peter

Kogler
is an Austrian artist who first gained attention in the international art scene in the 1980s. He utilizes biological imagery and digital media to create spatial illusion and intervention that challenge the viewer to discern between real and fictional space.

Peter Kogler

Brain CA (green)
, 1989

Collage on Canvas, 48″ x 48″

Gift of American International Group, 2006

Peter Kogler

Brain CA (pink)
, 1989

Collage on Canvas, 48″ x 48″

Gift of American International Group, 2006

Josef Albers
was a teacher at the Bauhaus in Germany before immigrating with his wife to the United States, where they continued to teach and inspire a new generation of students. These pieces are from a set of ten lithographs entitled
White Embossing on Gray,
depicting the optical aesthetic that can be found in three-dimensional geometric shapes.