2025: “Comma: Infinity in a Box”

Comma: Infinity In A Box is an exhibition at Vanderbilt University’s Space 204 Gallery. Artist team, Judy Rushin-Knopf and Carolyn Henne started the Comma as an ongoing artist book project that presented opportunities for Rushin-Knopf and Henne to collaborate with 14 other artists. Rushin-Knopf’s and Henne’s common interest in the language of materials has driven Comma for a decade. They began working together as faculty colleagues at Florida State University in 2015, inviting small teams of artists to collaborate on editioned collections of objects designed to be handled and used to spark curiosity and conversation.

I was very happy to be part of Volume 1: Ghost Objects. My contribution was titled Genus Roigia (2017) and it was one of first works to address the link between my work as a painter and the scientific research of my great-great uncle, the Cuban botanist, Juan Tomás Roig. Each piece is unique; made from one of my deconstructed paintings, my old paintbrushes, recycled leather shoes, and a 3D printed “Double Roig”, an object based on a commemorative medal that has Juan Tomas Roig’s profile and is given by the Cuban government to people who achieve scientific excellence in their field. I had my head 3D scanned and added to the back of 3D printed object- bidging the two Roigs through time, space and technology.