Educational Gallery

Thin Slices of Time by Aina Puce

On display March 7 – April 22, 2025

Exhibit Details:
In Thin Slices of Time, Puce draws on her background as a neuroscientist to tell her own photographic story. Her work focuses on several things, one of which is catching singular moments in time, moments like no other. Puce also strives to highlight oft-overlooked details of images we see regularly, whether that is an architectural detail, the veins of a plant, or the symmetry of a view. Lastly, she works to capture a subject with minimal clutter. Aina will speak on her work during a gallery talk on Saturday, March 22, at 5pm.

About the Artist:
Aina Puce is a visual neuroscientist of 40+ years who studies changes in the electrical activity or focal blood flow in the human brain. She was born and educated in Melbourne, Australia, and currently lives in Bloomington. Puce is a self-taught photographer of over 35 years, who also experiments with multimedia art, incorporating photographic materials into collages based on works in watercolor and gouache. She has dabbled in ceramics. Favorite photographic subjects include abstract details, landscapes, architecture, and nature themes. To shoot images, she uses analog and digital SLR, mirrorless camera, or cell phone and is now experimenting with cameraless photography.

Puce has previously exhibited in three solo shows in Morgantown, West Virgina, (in 2007,2008 and 2013). In Bloomington, she is a member of the Bloomington Photography Club, the FAR Photo Review Group, and the Bloomington Arts Alliance. She has regularly exhibited in juried shows in Morgantown and Bloomington. She received Bloomington Art Council funding for a curated photo exhibit for the FAR Photo Review Group at the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts/Picture Gallery in 2023. In 2024, she participated in the peer-reviewed Open Call for Submissions [Constellation Galleries, Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington], being awarded gallery space for a photographic exhibition for March-April 2025. Her full photo portfolio can be seen here: https://ainapuce.myportfolio.com