Pleiades Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings based on the theme of water with an unusual twist– incorporating science and music with the art. The initial concept began during a multi-year collaboration between artist Heather Stivison and scientist Noah Germolus, who was researching ocean chemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Stivison interpreted his research in paintings and upon seeing the paintings, Germolus composed jazz music that pairs with four of the artworks. The recordings play on-demand while looking at the artwork.

When the art and science collaboration was completed, Stivison continued to explore the characteristics water in several large bodies of work. The exhibition includes samplings from these works, presenting Stivison’s idea of “the many faces of water.”

The exhibition includes a massive 110-inch quadriptych that explores the sense of weightlessness and mystery that she finds in the imagining unknown ocean depths. Other paintings explore surface water patterns as abstract design.

Curator and director of Manhattan Arts International Renee Phillips writes:  “Stivison ventures beyond nature’s physical boundaries into abstraction with the profusion of free-flowing biomorphic patterns and tonal ranges. In her paintings the innate attributes of water evolve into metaphors, symbolism and visual poetry.”