Living Drawings Exhibitions
Recently she has created a series of Living Drawings with bioluminescent bacteria. These Living Drawings depict the cycle of life and death calling attention to our own mortality. Cole creates controlled line drawings using bioluminescent bacteria. The bacteria then grow in the host environment. Bacteria become collaborators in the art as it grows and dies. First appearing with bright light, bacteria in the drawing are photographed as it uses up available nutrients, gradually dying-off over a two-week period. The cover of the April 2004 issue of Nature Genetics featured one of these Living Drawings. Cole’s Living Drawings were a part of a group exhibition, It’s Alive! A Laboratory of BioTech Art, at Monserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts in 2007. Cole’s Living Drawings have had solo shows at the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago, Illinois in 2006 and the Honors College at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan in 2005.
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