Wally Gilbert

Six examples of Wally Gilbert’s art will be shown on easels.  These are 36”x24” dye-sublimation prints on Aluminum.  They are intensely colored, and involve abstractions often created by superimposing several photographic images.

Wally Gilbert had a long career  as a molecular biologist working on genes and DNA.  He and Fred Sanger shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980 for finding ways to decipher the order of chemical groups along a DNA molecule and hence to make it possible to read the genes.  Those discoveries, and their follow-ups, drove the development of the last four decades and led to the working out of the Human Genome program and the current understanding of all organisms.  

Wally now works in Digital Art.  He makes large images of fragments of the world, focusing on form, texture, and color, using a small digital camera. 

Wally sees the commonality between Science and Art in his work only as the expression of a common creative impulse, the drive to create something new, not yet known.  In Science that drive is to create something new and true, true in the sense of experimental reproducibility by one’s peers.  In Art that drive is to create something new and beautiful.  The beauty stands by itself.

Online Gallery of Wally Gilbert’s work: https://www.kunstmatrix.com/en/wally-gilbert