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Viewpoint: Painting Where Landscape Meets Memory

The detail depicted above, from the painting Simmer Dim Flyover, is by Shona Macdonald, associate professor of studio art (Art, Architecture and Art History) at UMass Amherst. Painted in oil and casein on canvas, it reflects one of the recurring themes in Macdonald’s work – how memory and landscape can merge together to create a sense of place or displacement. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Roswell Artist-in-Residence Fellowship (2010-11) and Can Serrat Fellowship (2012), Macdonald’s work will be featured in a number of group shows this coming year. Learn more.

Photo credit: Shona Macdonald

Red mineral specimen called crocoite from the Marvin Rausch Mineral Collection
Red Lead: The Marvin Rausch Mineral Collection
A sheet of paper folded along a closed curve buckles dramatically.
Origami Design: Understanding Mechanics to Develop New Meta-Materials
View of fields from abandoned building in Uganda where new University is planned
Outside Looking In: Building a Green University in Uganda
Leatherback sea turtle fitted with a GPS-linked satellite tag
Lives of the Leatherbacks: Protecting the Species
zebrafish belladonna mutant
Missing the Connection: Seeing in Reverse
confocal image is of an antibody stain of the skin of zebrafish larvae
Neural Nets: Zebrafish and Spinal Cord Function
Close up of gecko leg adhering to geckskin
Super-Adhesion: No Longer Just for Geckos
Art installation of life-size silhouette figures in red and blue on brick wall
Community Spirit: UMass Design Center in Springfield
View of ice berg in many shades of blue that has just broken off a glacier
For the Record: Understanding and Responding to Climate Change
Molecular Cloud: A Star is Born
Landmark Lobster: Cross Section Shows Vertebrate Skeletal Similarities
A tobacco leaf clamped between a Li-cor portable photosynthesis system
Portable Photosynthesis: New Greenhouses for Plant Research