"Landscapes of Material and Mind"

a (physical) SciArt Initiative exhibition at the New York Hall of Science

​February 19 - April 24, 2022
The notion of boundary between the interior and exterior permeates many aspects of life. With the threshold of inside versus outside governing much of how we understand the world, our basic reality is characterized by a construct of separateness and the vital comfort of the contained self. From every angle, unwanted exposure counters deliberate connection as a constant force of push and pull. From inside the body to the great outdoors, from the level of bacteria to that of the psychological, how tangled are the landscapes we are composed of and live within? The artwork in this exhibition explores these questions from the personal, scientific, and artistic points of view.

- Tarah Rhoda, Guest Curator


Artists in this exhibit include Adriano Marinazzo, Darya Warner, Elena Soterakis, Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Heather Parrish & Elizabeth Hnaff & Leo Roussel, Heide Hatry, Ibuki Kuramochi​, Jennifer Willet, Laura Murray, Laura Stack, Liz Hickok, Michelle Robinson, Ramey Newell, Rian Hotton, Susan Hoffman Fishman, and Yujia Bian.


Exhibit visitation will follow the current hours listed at the museum. 

Exhibit Events

February 27th, 2-4pm EST

Join us for the virtual reception!

This reception will take place on Mozilla Hubs, a virtual and freely-explorable environment. Drop in as you please, peruse some of the art works in the show, chit chat via your mic with fellow attendees and participating artists, and have fun!
Registrants will receive log on instructions prior to the event.
March 31st, 1-2:30pm EST

​Join us virtually for an afternoon with curator Tarah Rhoda and participating artists.

This event will be a guided visual tour through the work in this show via Zoom Webinar. We will spend time hearing from participating artists on how their practice and process is influenced and inspired by the themes of this show.
About the Curator

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Tarah Rhoda is an artist and educator based in NYC, where she runs the School of Visual Art’s BioArt Lab, a BSL-1 laboratory that provides artists with the tools of biotechnology and fosters creative applications. Through investigations of the body as a miniature world, her art practice yanks at the sense of self in nature’s reflection. Her recent work employs the physical principle of wetness as a metaphor for empathy, social permeability, and eco-connectivity. She received her BFA (2010) and MFA (2020) from SVA and also studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.  Her work has been exhibited in New York, Denver, Detroit, Toronto, Mexico City, Lisbon, Berlin, Eindhoven and featured in National Geographic, the Guardian, and CBSNews.