Broad Institute: Assembly Space
Kohn’s installation isn’t meant to be touched but, in keeping with the Broad spirit, he wants what is on those walls to be interactive.
Kohn’s installation isn’t meant to be touched but, in keeping with the Broad spirit, he wants what is on those walls to be interactive.
Part of a series introducing the Artist and the Broad Institute Artist residency program.
Genetic research fuses with fine art when the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard brings Daniel Kohn, a Brooklyn-based painter, into their lab for a residency.
Daniel Kohn, artist-in-residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Damian Young, a synthetic organic chemist at the Broad Institute and project leader of its Chemical Biology Program, discuss the intersection of science and art, and how those shared qualities relate to their own work.
Two artists delve into DNA as subject matter for their work and the results are as different as one haplogroup to the next. Lynn Fellman and Daniel Kohn talk about their experiences in the laboratory and how their art visually represents DNA.
Kohn dove into the first objective head-long, unabashedly questioning the Broad scientists, and trying to learn and absorb what he could of the research being done around him.
My partnership with the Broad did not begin with any literal connection between my own art and scientific imagery.
Interior scenes by Daniel Kohn testify that everything is a worthy subject of artistic study – including the kitchen sink. Not to mention the kitchen shelves, the refrigerator, the colander and the whisk. Flat but vivid expanses of wall and floor contrast with rashes of homey, familiar clutter. Not the stuff of Better Homes and Gardens perhaps, but certainly the stuff of life.