Meredith Tromble is an intermedia artist and writer who makes drawings, installations, and performances. Her curiosity about imagination and knowing has sparked several projects with scientists, including the Vortex series of interactive artworks, drawings, and performances with geobiologist Dawn Sumner. She also collaborates with the Los Angeles-based company Donna Sternberg & Dancers. Tromble’s work has been widely presented at venues including the Mills Museum, Oakland; Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.; BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn; Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, University of California, Davis; Wendler and Long Galleries of the Cushing Memorial Archive at Texas A&M, College Station; and Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York. Her Dream Vortex was chosen as an Exemplar Project of interdisciplinary research by the Association for Arts in Research Universities and she has contributed as an artist to several research teams. Her blog “Art and Shadows,” on contemporary art illuminated by science, was honored with an Art Writers Grant from the Warhol Foundation. Her recent publications include a chapter on her Vortex series in D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms, eds. Ellen K. Levy and Charissa Terranova. Tromble co-edits the Bloomsbury book series “Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design” and is Professor Emeritus, San Francisco Art Institute. She was a long-term artist-in-residence at the University of California, Davis (UCD) Complexity Sciences Center and is currently Affiliate of the UCD Feminist Research Institute.
Curator Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción interviews Meredith Tromble.