From scales to feathers : the avian artworks of Brandon Ballengee

Easton, PA: Lafayette College Art Galleries, 2015. Paperback. Near Fine-/None. Pictorial softcover with light edgewear at extremities. Spine is uncreased. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and unmarked. Quarto. BOOK INFO: Contents include: Foreword by Michiko Okaya; Preface, Adrian Plant; Acknowledgments, Brandon Ballengée; Introduction: Seasons in Hell, Roel Arkesteijn and Peter Fransman; 1 Darwin?s Pigeons: Rediscovering a Collection of Evolutionary Icons, Joanne H. Cooper 2 Nature's Fancy: Charles Darwin and the Breeding of Pigeons, James A. Secord 3 The Evanescent Presence of Sculpted Wings, KuyDelair 4 A Habit of Deciding Influence: Pigeons from Charles Darwin's Breeding Experiments, Ballengée 5 Mapping Purgatory: Brandon Ballengée in Conversation with Roel Arkesteijn, Arkesteijn and Ballengée 6 Brandon Ballengée: Art/Science/Activism, Robert S. Mattison 7 Frameworks of Absence: The Extinct Birds of John James Audubon, Ballengée 8 Apparitions, Ballengée 9 A Season in Hell Series: Deadly Born Cry, Ballengée with KuyDelair and Stanley K. Sessions. Artist, biologist and environmental educator, Brandon Ballengée creates transdisciplinary artworks inspired from his ecological field and laboratory research. Since 1996, a central investigation focus has been the occurrence of developmental deformities and population declines among amphibians and other ectothermic vertebrates. From 2009 through 2015 he continued his amphibian research as a Visiting Scientist at McGill University (Montréal, Canada) and in 2011 he was awarded a conservation leadership fellowship from the National Audubon Society's TogetherGreen Program (USA). Ballengée's art has been exhibited internationally and in the summer of 2013 the first career survey of his work debuted at the Château de Charamarande in Essonne (France), and travelled to the Museum Het Domein in Sittard (Netherlands) in 2014. A mid-career retrospective of his work will open fall 2016 at the University of Wyoming Art Museum. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Plymouth (England) in collaboration with the Hochschule für Gestaltung Zürich (Switzerland). Currently he is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Biological Sciences Department at Louisiana State University studying the impact on fishes from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (-from the publisher)