Michael Weinstein

As scientific instruments penetrate ever deeper into matter, photography proceeds apace, capturing the dizzyingly complex worlds with their ragged geometries that appear at vanishing points in space within split seconds. Collaborating with cutting-edge scientists from a variety of disciplines, Felice Frankel is a pioneer in nanophotography whose color images of minute physical phenomena pass muster as dazzling abstractions apart from our wonder at their provenance. Whether she deploys her microscope and camera to hone in on tiny molecules molded from silicon--with moving parts like gears and wheels that measure a millionth of a meter--or the hidden drama that unfolds when plastic tape is ripped from a surface, Frankel shows us that the naked eye glosses over a plenitude of forms that cooperate to give us our illusory sense of solidity and coherence.

Felice Frankel shows at the Italian Cultural Institute, 500 North Michigan, (312)822-9545, through May 30.

(2006-05-09)

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