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Bathsheba Grossman was born in 1966 in a small town in the northeast US. She began by getting a degree in mathematics from Yale (1988), then changed course to get an art degree at the University of Pennsylvania (1993). She studied sculptural principles and metalworking with Erwin Hauer and Robert Engman, mathematical sculptors who were both trained by Josef Albers.

After several years' experience making bronze sculpture by traditional methods, she switched in 1998 to CAD/CAM and began designing sculpture digitally for production by 3D printing. Since then she has been making sculpture using many technologies including lost-wax casting, electroforming, stereolithography, ZCorp printing, and most recently Prometal direct steel printing; along the way he also started Protoshape, a 3D printing service bureau.

She also designs artwork for subsurface laser etching in glass, and in that medium he has created a line of scientific images based in astronomy, molecular biology and mathematics, and a service for imaging protein structures that is used by most major pharmaceutical companies and many research centers. Most recently she designed a museum exhibit for the University of Syracuse, in the form of a laser-etched model of the Milky Way Galaxy, opening December 2004.

Site: www.bathsheba.com