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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐
@stellerarts.com
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🎨 merging art + astrophysics
✨ space-inspired paintings
🔭 planetary science PhD
🪶 bird nerd, gamer, cloud watcher

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · Oct 14
hi #PortfolioDay ✨

I’m Laci, planetary astrophysicist turned full-time artist. I love merging science + art through vibrant space paintings!

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30x30” oil painting of the Pillars of Creation. There is a partial checkerboard pattern across most of the piece, which weaves together 2 JWST images. The red orange squares are mid-infrared light. The purple blue squares add in near-infrared light bringing thousands of stars into view. Close up of 30x15” oil painting. This section of a star-forming region looks like the skull of a dragon or Leviathan in dark brown set against a lavender background. The background fades into pink and a peachy orange moving from left to right. 24x24” oil painting of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. A vibrant circular-shaped explosion of magenta, orange, lime green, yellow, and light blue against a background of deep teal with peach stars. The painting is based on a composite image of x-ray, visible, and infrared light. At noon, 4 o clock, and 8 o clock are subtle triangles singling each type of light. A 24x24” oil painting of the Ring Nebula. Most of the piece is a vibrant ring of complex details beginning with a blue-green center transitioning into orange, yellow, peach, then red. Outside the ring is a deep blue and black. This is the planetary nebula from JWST in near-infrared light. At 11 o clock is a small hexagon and 5 o clock has a larger hexagon. The hexagons are from another JWST image in mid-infrared light. The colors are inverted in the hexagons and the center area (now in red) has more structure at longer wavelengths.
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 23

Milky Way and Andromeda enjoy a dance of death. They're moving towards each other and will begin to merge in a few billion years.

Crikey!
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is moving towards the Andromeda galaxy. Astronomers predict that in about 4 billion years, the two galaxies will collide and begin to merge. The Solar System's fate is uncertain. It might end up in the final, larger galaxy, orbiting further from the core than it does now, or it might be ejected into space altogether.
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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For #artAdventCalendar day 21 evening, a not odd but old piece.

Ice Falls
22×28 56×71cm
Oil on Canvas
1992
Abstract landscape: muted multicolour mountain range with soft flowing edges and a glacier tumbling down the foreground
December 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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A Baja Blast counts as space art, right?? #ArtAdventCalendar
11x14” oil painting in progress of a Mt. Dew Baja Blast on easel.
December 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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You guys, right after I snapped this pic, I looked outside and a hummingbird flew right up to my window. I think she approves!

Not finished yet btw. Needed another layer on the background first. That will help me judge tones for the final details. #ArtAdventCalendar
Work in progress oil painting of a handheld mini pinball game. I’m holding the reference to the left of the painting. The game has an orange case and the background art has spaceships.
December 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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My Christmas tradition is quite different from most. I wake up and go birding (bird watching) then I play video games. Now it’s supposed to rain 😫
December 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Adventure with your cat through the depths of the universe 🌌
Teapot featuring colorful nebula and lime green planet surrounded by shining stars. Mug featuring light green and dark green spacecraft design with small round window and cat sitting inside. Teapot featuring colorful nebula and lime green planet surrounded by shining stars. (Right) Teapot featuring colorful nebula and lime green planet surrounded by shining stars. (Left) Mug featuring light green and dark green spacecraft design with small round window and cat sitting inside.
December 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Another day of my husband making me a cute little pancake and a gigantic one for himself lol
A small round pancake on a plate and a huge oblong pancake on another plate.
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Lately I’m exploring my artistic side as a separate entity from my scientist side. Most of my paintings combine both, and sometimes there is pressure that my art needs to teach. I’m having a great time creating space art that’s just…fun! First layer on the star candy today (took about ~3 hours).
Oil painting in progress on easel. Mason jar filled with orange, pink, and purple gummy star candy. There is a sunflower outline on the glass. Four pieces of candy are in the front left of the jar.
December 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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It’s just a comet, you dinguses
December 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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It took the full power of my last remaining brain cell today to paint the scoring numbers. Gave the background a first layer, too. Once everything dries I can finish the final details & will paint deez pinballs. 🕹️
Close up of rectangular oil painting of mini pinball game. The background is a dark blue grey. The case is orange with a background with spaceships. There are now scoops for catching the pinballs with the scoring numbers added.
December 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I did not set up my Solar System Christmas tree this year 😕. Just was not feeling it. But if you’re nice to me, I’ll share pictures of it across the years next week!
December 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Mini pinball game update. Today I added the first layer on the scoopy things (idk what they’re called). Tomorrow I’ll add the scoring numbers. Only a few things left + the background. Almost finished! #ArtAdventCalendar
Oil painting of a handheld mini pinball game. The outer case is orange. The background has spaceships. The plastic interior pieces are coming into view. Work in progress.
December 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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1/3 Here is one of several flyovers our digital terrain model group created from a DTM of our 100,000th observation of Mars!
December 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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I showed up to my doctor’s appointment today and everything was gone! Lights off, no furniture, all the doors open. Should have taken a selfie standing in the empty office confused lmao. They moved locations & forgot to tell me. Oops! It all worked out though, did my appt on the phone. silly day 😆
December 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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me: there’s a meteor shower!
husband: where?
me: in the sky
husband: 😑😑😑 no like which direction
December 15, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Okay hear me out. I am a science artist accustomed to providing a description of the physics behind my paintings. Lately, I’ve been painting random space-inspired objects, too. It’s actually been kinda nice not needing to explain my art lol. I can just be like LOOK!
December 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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For #ArtAdventCalendar day 13, one from my 2018 Turbulent Skies Project.

I Can See It…With My Imagination
44x60 112×152cm
Oil on Canvas
2018
Abstract landscape: swirling storm clouds with a wall cloud and rain underneath, yellow field and trees
December 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Late-year academic push nearly over, so ready to get back to making these guys 🛠️
A worker ant and a plant hopper with a prominent nose facing each other, sitting on a white background. The ant is bronze, and the planthopper is bronze with silver eyes and wings. Both cast in my garage, which I’m dying to get back to.
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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anyone care for a game of 70s mini pinball?
Work in progress oil painting of a mini pinball game with spaceships in the background. I’m holding the reference mini game next to the painting.
December 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Space artists: don’t forget to submit your work to The Art of Planetary Science exhibition by December 31st! The event is held in Tucson. Anyone can submit—all levels & types of human-made art. I’ll be submitting and attending again. 🐡🔭🧪

More details here: lpl.arizona.edu/art
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December 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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I went to dinner with a friend. Ordered a margarita. The woman asked for my ID. I presented it to her and she audibly gasped. “I knew you were over 21, but you do not look your age!” I will be riding this high for at least a month, thank you kind woman at Calle Tepa restaurant.
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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a moment for the reflections & letters 🤌
mini pinball game painting in progress Close up of the reflections in the plastic and letters that say “mini-game pinball”
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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December 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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💫✨ Tarak the Nebula Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨

#ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡
A hand sculpted and painted octopus sculpture painted in a royal blue Nebula theme. With many meticulously painted stars.
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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pinball game progress 🚀
Mini pinball game on my left hand and an oil painting of the game in progress on a rectangular canvas
December 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM