DePaul Art Museum: Studio or Science Lab?

Through a practice deeply rooted in research and experimentation, artist Marissa Benedict channels her curiosity about the world around into sculpture, installation, performance, video and writings.

Seeking to create a web of evocative connections among nature, science, art history, and personal experience, Benedict investigates the ever-evolving relationship between humans and the material world.

Her current work on view at the DePaul Art Museum, 935 W. Fullerton Ave., is a self-contained mini-laboratory which produces algal biodiesel through a complex system involving home-brewed mead, tubing and toaster ovens. The display is part of the university's "Climate of Uncertainty" exhibition.

Marissa Benedict received a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Benedict has shown extensively throughout the Chicago area and has an upcoming solo exhibition at Three Walls gallery in Chicago's West Loop. She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and Mildred's Lane, and was a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Recipient.

Editor's Note: The above information was submitted by DePaul University.