Gregg Dunn: Neuroscience Painting

1. Cerebellar Lobe

Gregg Dunn, neuroscientist, is a lover of Japanese Edo scroll and screen painting. He discovered that the elegant forms of neurons in our brains can be painted expressively in the ‘sumi-e’ style. Neurons may be tiny in scale, but they clearly posess the same beauty seen in traditional forms of far eastern minimalist painting traditions. Dunn offers a unique persepective to our ‘skull tissues’ of neurons, glial flares, hippocampus, the cortex, synapses, and ganglion. Take a look.

2. Cortex in Metallic Pastels

3. Gold Retina (L),  Hippocampus-II (R)

4. Stomatogastric ganglion

5. NG2 flare

6. Synaptogenesis

7. Two-Pyramidals

8. Retina I

9. Olfactory Bulb

10. Purkinje Neurons

11. Gold Cortex

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manisha
manisha
9 years ago

how incredible.. i was searching for neuron art and google sent me your site!!

Leroy
Leroy
12 years ago

Nice work. I am not sure I will buy them though. Kind of nice in a gallery way.

rubina
rubina
12 years ago

love this… innovation is when someone creates the unexpected..the dots that were not joined previously.

Costa
Costa
12 years ago

No grey matter this. very beautiful.

Bridgette
Bridgette
12 years ago

Never thought of my brain this way lol

Catherine V
Catherine V
12 years ago

very inventive and smart painter. its nice when artists bring together things in a new manner.

Rosmanov
Rosmanov
12 years ago

Shared this. Great idea and talent.

sven
sven
12 years ago

curious mix of exact science and cloudy art. like.

Candace Van Hout
Candace Van Hout
12 years ago

Absolutely stunning. I especially like the “Cortex”. They look like floating winter barren trees displaying the limbs and the root system. Truly breathtaking.

joseph s
joseph s
12 years ago

The crab stomatogastric ganglion, which is a collection of neurons in the crab controls the chewing and digestion of food. :)

Laville
Laville
12 years ago

i like this visual sensibility, not over the top, and the fact that he found commonalities between neural structures and minimalist painting.

runa
runa
12 years ago

i think he uses splatter techniques like jackson pollock..

joseph S
joseph S
12 years ago

Brain tip: the cerebral cortex processes sensory and motor information!

Cinderella
Cinderella
12 years ago

…and why would anyone call it grey matter? lol

P Kaur
P Kaur
12 years ago

interesting work,,,i checked out his site and most of the work is sold out already *jealous*

S Bhardwaj
S Bhardwaj
12 years ago

would love to have a few of these in my study. expensive I think.

Isadora T
Isadora T
12 years ago

This made me smile. :)