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Artwork by Shoshanah Dubiner

Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About Shoshanah Dubiner

Shoshanah Dubiner My paintings take off from nature inspired by science, especially from cell biology and botany. While much art depicts the world at the human scale (landscapes, portraits, apples in a bowl) I often start with cell membranes, the inside of cells, the silk spigots of spiders, lichens, the world of the tiny. By depicting natural forms in an imagined, mythical world, my paintings reveal the human psyche and its capacity to go beneath the surface of things; to experience beauty and awe and even fear; to understand that we humans are connected to all the other creatures on earth and even to the cosmos.

I enjoy observing and reading about nature, but I am not a scientific illustrator in the conventional sense. I do research biology textbooks and nature magazines, as well as the website nikkonsmallworld.com, for inspiration and understanding.

Once I start a painting, everything I have learned about nature from the textbooks falls into the background as I begin a poetic visual story. I embellish the natural forms, give them intensely bright colors, juxtapose things from different scales of space and time. I take these 'freedoms' as a form of creative play. They amplify the sense of mystery and awe, both for myself and for the viewer. While I am painting, one form often metamorphoses into another or emerges next to another form at a different scale. Heretofore rigid boundaries between forms begin to dissolve into fluidity and wholeness.

After completing my academic training in Comparative Literature (earning a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. from Harvard), I returned to one of my early loves: the theater. I earned an M.F.A. in Theater Design from Brandeis University, and promptly moved to Italy to work as a costume designer for Italian stage and cinema. Returning to the USA, I enjoyed a successful career in design: costumes, graphics and illustration, museum exhibitions, and interactive educational computer-video programs. In the late 1970s, as Artist-in-Residence and then Exhibit Designer at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, I worked with scientists in a variety of fields, from botany to zoology. In the 1980s I designed interactive educational programs for a variety of science exhibits, including the Petroleum Science and Technology Museum in Saudi Arabia. The 1990s I created animations for Microsoft's bestselling CDs, "Encarta" and "Explorapedia."

It wasn't until 1999 that I was able to devote myself to my personal vision, and in 2003, my solo exhibition, "Infinite Worlds Within" showed at the Canessa Gallery in San Francisco. Since moving to Ashland in 2004, I shown my work at the Gallery DeForest, Illahe Gallery, Pangea, Catalyst Ashland Gallery, and Southern Oregon University's Thorndike Gallery. My painting "Endosymbiosis: Homage to Lynn Margulis" was transformed into a video that was featured in the exhibit "Science Friction" at the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Spain (2021), and again at the Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao, Spain (2022).