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    • Patricia Valencia >
      • Elizabeth Delgadillo-Merfeld
    • Location: Between Present and Future >
      • Ana Mrovlje
      • Larysa Bauge
      • Jeanette Joy Harris
      • Giorgia de Santi with Sabrina Bellenzier
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      • Soyoung Shin
      • Meital Yaniv
      • Ashley Hagen
    • (Tekst) >
      • Elizabeth Medina
      • Daniel Caballero
      • SIobhan Hebron
      • Donel Williams
      • Andrew Freire
      • Seo Yun Son
      • Marissa Yardley Clifford
      • Christine Dianne Guiyangco
      • Joseph Alfred Baca III
      • David Whitaker
    • Association of Hysteric Curators >
      • Michiko Yao
      • Mary Anna Pomonis
      • Cindy Rehm
      • Marjan K. Vayghan
      • Rachel Finkelstein
      • Carolyn Castano
      • Kim Russo
      • Armando Cortes
      • Christine Dianne Guiyangco
    • Sarah Petersen >
      • Gudrun Lock
      • Constance Strickland
      • David Smile
      • Shagha Ariannia
      • Chandler Bryson McWilliams
    • Kean O'Brien - Rural(ity) and Dissonance
    • Malisa Humphrey >
      • White House Permanent Collection Acquisition Proposal: NEA Four
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    • 2015 Fall/Winter >
      • Rosalyn Myles
      • Erin Diebboll
      • Nancy Jo Haselbacher
      • Mitch Patrick
      • Tudor Mitroi
      • Vincent Ramos
      • Einat Imber
      • Sydney Snyder
      • Emily Joyce
      • Devon Tsuno
      • Cindy Rehm
      • Michiko Yao
    • 2016 Winter/Spring >
      • MIggie Wong
      • Patricia Burns
      • Joyce Dallal
      • Semi-Tropic Spiritualists
      • Lauren Evans
      • John Trevino
      • Yoshie Sakai
      • Ismael de Anda III
      • Guan Rong
      • Mary Anna Pomonis
    • 2016 Summer >
      • Valery Jung Estabrook
      • Michele Jaquis
      • Cole M James
      • Malado Baldwin
      • L.E. Kim
    • 2016 Fall >
      • James Buss
      • Audrey Chan
      • Elizabeth Ferry
    • 2017 Winter >
      • Stephen Lapthisophon
      • Elana Mann with Jean-Paul Leonard
    • 2017 Summer >
      • Rockhaven
    • 2017 Fall >
      • Kaitlynn Redell and Sara Jimenez
      • Michael Mazurek
      • Dahn Gim and Lisa Myeong-Joo
    • 2018 Spring >
      • Catherine Fairbanks
      • Mildred Beltre
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Emily Joyce


Paintings for P. scripta


Sea turtles, together with other reptiles and birds, are part of the vertebrate group in which vision evolved to the highest levels of complexity (Walls, 1942). This suggests that when sea turtles returned to the aquatic realm, they did so with a great "toolbox" of visual system features, to be adapted to a predominantly aquatic lifestyle. As a "natural experiment," sea turtle vision is therefore of particular interest to vision science.

Loggerhead sea turtles can distinguish between color targets of blue (450 nm), green (500 nm), and yellow (580 nm) irrespective of the stimulus intensity. This is the first conclusive evidence of color discrimination in sea turtles based on the stimulus wavelength alone. Testing a wider range of wavelengths, Neumeyer and Arnold (1989) could establish that the freshwater turtle P. scripta has true tetra chromatic color vision, which includes the UV cone as a fully functional component of a color vision system, on that is significantly more complex than that of humans.

Sea turtle eyes have retained many of their reptilian features, such as relatively small eye and pupil size, but at the sea time show adaptations suited to a predominantly aquatic lifestyle, such as a flat cornea and a likely inability to appropriately accommodate in air. Sea turtles have the potential for exquisite color vision; however, the full extent of their cool discrimination abilities remains to be tested. Their spectral range extends into the UV waveband, which is likely to aid detection of planktonic and transparent prey. Exactly why these animals have retained such a variety of visual  pigments and oil droplets is as yet unknown. For instance, little information is available on the role color discrimination may play in behaviors such as feeding or mate choice. There is certainly a need for more extensive and species-specific work on sea turtle behavior in their natural habitat as well as more lab-based and therefore controlled behavioral experiments on color vision in sea turtles to help solve this puzzle.

-from The Biology of Sea Turtles Volume 3, Edited by Jeannette Wyneken, Kenneth J. Lohmann, and John A. Musick, CRC, Press 2013.


video made with Ian Byers-Gamber
Over the last 15 years, artist Emily Joyce has been investigating abstraction, first with vinyl wall installations that flirted with narrative through the use of silhouettes and now with rhythmic, geometric paintings. Joyce has been included in many group and solo exhibitions in the United States and in Europe at venues including, Human Resources, Los Angeles, Machine Project, Los Angeles, LACE, Los Angeles, Inman Gallery, Houston, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York, and more.  She is currently working on co-curating (with Elissa Auther) “Aftereffect: O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting” an exhibition that offers an alternate American art history by offering the work of ten contemporary painters who, like Joyce take inspiration from Georgia O’Keeffe and American Modernism.

http://www.emilyjoycestudio.com

Our Prime Property 2015-2018
  • AGENDA
  • Residence (curatorial)
    • Patricia Valencia >
      • Elizabeth Delgadillo-Merfeld
    • Location: Between Present and Future >
      • Ana Mrovlje
      • Larysa Bauge
      • Jeanette Joy Harris
      • Giorgia de Santi with Sabrina Bellenzier
    • Location Location Location >
      • Soyoung Shin
      • Meital Yaniv
      • Ashley Hagen
    • (Tekst) >
      • Elizabeth Medina
      • Daniel Caballero
      • SIobhan Hebron
      • Donel Williams
      • Andrew Freire
      • Seo Yun Son
      • Marissa Yardley Clifford
      • Christine Dianne Guiyangco
      • Joseph Alfred Baca III
      • David Whitaker
    • Association of Hysteric Curators >
      • Michiko Yao
      • Mary Anna Pomonis
      • Cindy Rehm
      • Marjan K. Vayghan
      • Rachel Finkelstein
      • Carolyn Castano
      • Kim Russo
      • Armando Cortes
      • Christine Dianne Guiyangco
    • Sarah Petersen >
      • Gudrun Lock
      • Constance Strickland
      • David Smile
      • Shagha Ariannia
      • Chandler Bryson McWilliams
    • Kean O'Brien - Rural(ity) and Dissonance
    • Malisa Humphrey >
      • White House Permanent Collection Acquisition Proposal: NEA Four
  • PAST
    • 2015 Fall/Winter >
      • Rosalyn Myles
      • Erin Diebboll
      • Nancy Jo Haselbacher
      • Mitch Patrick
      • Tudor Mitroi
      • Vincent Ramos
      • Einat Imber
      • Sydney Snyder
      • Emily Joyce
      • Devon Tsuno
      • Cindy Rehm
      • Michiko Yao
    • 2016 Winter/Spring >
      • MIggie Wong
      • Patricia Burns
      • Joyce Dallal
      • Semi-Tropic Spiritualists
      • Lauren Evans
      • John Trevino
      • Yoshie Sakai
      • Ismael de Anda III
      • Guan Rong
      • Mary Anna Pomonis
    • 2016 Summer >
      • Valery Jung Estabrook
      • Michele Jaquis
      • Cole M James
      • Malado Baldwin
      • L.E. Kim
    • 2016 Fall >
      • James Buss
      • Audrey Chan
      • Elizabeth Ferry
    • 2017 Winter >
      • Stephen Lapthisophon
      • Elana Mann with Jean-Paul Leonard
    • 2017 Summer >
      • Rockhaven
    • 2017 Fall >
      • Kaitlynn Redell and Sara Jimenez
      • Michael Mazurek
      • Dahn Gim and Lisa Myeong-Joo
    • 2018 Spring >
      • Catherine Fairbanks
      • Mildred Beltre
  • FRIENDS
  • contact