Yeast Art Portfolio
A collection of yeast art created in Jef Boeke's lab. Click on the images for details and descriptions.
MLK
Portrait of Martin Luther King Jr using 24,576 biopixels
Printed by Aleksandra Wudzinska
Hope
President Barack Obama adapted from iconic “Hope” poster
Printed by Aleksandra Wudzinska
Maya
Portrait of Maya Angelou using 24,576 biopixels
Printed by Aleksandra Wudzinska
Designed and printed by Aleksandra Wudzinska
Designed and printed by Aleksandra Wudzinska
Imagine
John Lennon in 24,576 biopixels
Printed by Aleksandra Wudzinska
Recreation of Picasso's "Girl Before a Mirror" printed by Aleksandra Wudzinska
Charles Darwin embedded in epoxy resin
Nicholas Dirks
Margaret Meade designed and printed by Aleksandra Wudzinska
Mushrooms
Printed in black, red, orange, blue, yellow, and white on paper and then preserved. 24,576 biopixels
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
NYC Skyline
Printed in black, red, orange, yellow, purple, blue, and white on paper and then preserved. 24,576 biopixels
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
Dinosaur
Printed in black and white on paper and then preserved. 24,576 biopixels
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
Roses
Printed in several pinks, black, yellow, and white on paper and then preserved. 24,576 biopixels
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
This image won the 2017 ASM Agar Art Competition. The piece was printed with ten yeast strains: black, white, RFP-pink, dark pink, light pink, purple, orange, yellow, gray, and blue. 24,576 biopixels!
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
This piece is a yeast adaptation of Roy Lichtenstein iconic painting In the Car. Printed in red, yellow, white, black, blue, purple, and pink yeast, the bold popart style of Lichtenstein lent itself perfectly to yeast art. 24,576 biopixels
Adapted from Roy Lichtenstein, printed by Jasmine Temple.
This pattern was printed with five different yeast strains: black, white, orange, yellow and blue. Inspired by the Sc 2.0 project: http://syntheticyeast.org/. 24,576 biopixels.
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
The Eiffel Tower by Georges Seurat in 1889. This image was printed using almost the entire yeast pigment palette in order to achieve a sense of optical mixing used in the original pointillism piece of art. 24,576 biopixels.
Printed by Jasmine Temple
The Girl with the Pearl Earring painted by Johannes Vermeer, printed in yeast strains, evoking the soft oils in the original 1665 painting. 24,576 biopixels.
Printed by Jasmine Temple.
Sc 2.0
This pattern was printed with four different yeast strains: black, white, gray and orange. Inspired by the Sc 2.0 project: http://syntheticyeast.org/. 24,576 biopixels.
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
Mohonk Mountain House
This pattern was printed with five different yeast strains: black, white, orange, two yellows, blue, gray, and purple. Mohonk Mountain House, New York. 24,576 biopixels.
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
Jasmine Temple Self Portrait
Self Portrait of Jasmine Temple
24,576 biopixels
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple
Figure Four in Figures Series
22,529 biopixels
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple
Figure Three in Figures Series
22,529 biopixels
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple
Figure Two in Figures Series
22,529 biopixels
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple
Figure One in Figure Series
24,000 biopixels
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple
Pride Flag
Pride Flag, printed in our rainbow pallet with 24,000 biopixels.
Printed by Jasmine Temple
The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch printed in yeast! 24,576 biopixels.
Printed by Jasmine Temple.
Van Gogh Self Portrait printed in eight yeast strains. 24,576 biopixels.
Printed by Jasmine Temple.
A diver printed in blue, red, orange, white, purple and several pinks. 24,576 biopixels.
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
This image was printed in black and white yeast and was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. Unlike the original, this piece incorporates some of our labs focus on humanizing yeast by integrating human gene pathways into yeast. 24,576 biopixels.
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
These pieces were printed with five different yeast strains: black, white, red, yellow and blue. Inspired by Rene Magritte's The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe), the pieces depict mushrooms titled Ceci nest pas un champignon. 24,576 biopixels.
Concept by Matt Barter. Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
This pattern was printed with six different yeast strains. 24,576 biopixels.
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
These pieces were printed with five different yeast strains: black, white, red, yellow and blue. Inspired by Rene Magritte's The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe), the pieces depict mushrooms titled Ceci nest pas un champignon. 24,576 biopixels.
Concept by Matt Barter. Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
New York City skyline at sunset printed with six different yeast strains. Winner of the FASEB 2016 BioArt competition. 24,576 biopixels.
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
Striped cat printed with four different yeast strains: purple, pink, orange and blue. 24,576 biopixels.
Designed and printed by Jasmine Temple.
A pink pig printed with black, orange, white and pink pigment strains. 1536 biopixels.
Printed by Leslie Mitchell.
The famous geneticist rendered in black, white and grey yeast! 24,576 biopixels.
Printed by Michael Shen.
The iconic image of Campbell's Tomato Soup printed in three colors of yeast. 1536 biopixels.
Printed by Nicholas Phillips.
The PI of the lab, Jef Boeke, printed in black, white, yellow and orange yeast across four plates! 4 x 1536 biopixels.
Printed by Jiarui Wang.
National Bohemian Beer logo printed with three colors of yeast: black, white and yellow. 384 biopixels.
Printed by Jiarui Wang.
A test pattern for yeast printing with three strains: black, orange and yellow. 384 biopixels.
Designed and printed by Nicholas Phillips.