Just came across this artist, and have to post:

Larry Bamburg

The progeny of my plant that died...  Sealed in a plexi box.

They sprouted, grew, and got infested with flies.  I had to put them outside where they will eventually die.

Chlorophyll photo printing... Binh Danh puts negatives on plants and exposes them to light for weeks or months. Link to his website:
http://binhdanh.com/Projects/Life/Life.html

http://philross.org/#projects/mycotecture/

PHOTO | Mark Dion, Neukom Vivarium, 2006. Courtesy the Seattle Art Museum.

VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins & Nick Ravich. Camera: John Gordon Hill. Sound: Charles Tomaras. Editor: Steven 

image: copyright 2006 simon jung
For more info:  Feed, A garden raised by TV

For more info (I don't think I could explain it well enough!):  http://www.davidbenque.com/projects/acoustic-botany

Untitled #1336 (Scalapino Nu Shu)
2009-10
 
Apple tree, taxidermy Black Melanistic Pheasants, taxidermy Blue India Peacocks, taxidermy Black Shouldered Peacocks, taxidermy Spaulding Peacocks, taxidermy black squirrel, black sand from pig-iron casting, Acrylex 234, black paint, cement, chicken-wire fencing, wood, gravel, sisal, staging rope, cotton rope, insulated foam sealant, pipe, epoxy. threaded rod, wire, screws, jaw-to-jaw swivels.
 
Overall dimensions:
158 x 247 1/2 x 245 in. (401.3 x 628.7 x 622.3 cm)
 
Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
 
Photograph: Elisabeth Bernstein

www.petahcoyne.org

For more info:
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/60051566?img=3

Large branches fell off trees during a storm, and I got these awesome bits.  I also dug up plants from my garden... I'm still in the "play" stage.

My aloe tree that was infested with carpenter ants and removed from my studio.  Oh well, will have to think of something else...

Well before Fleming discovered penicillin, he painted with living microbes.  To read more:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Painting-With-Penicillin-Alexander-Flemings-Germ-Art.html

Steichen was a photographer, painter, curator, and plant breeder.  In 1936, MOMA exhibited his delphiniums for one week.  To read more:  http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2011/03/08/edward-steichen-archive-delphiniums-blue-and-white-and-pink-too/

http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on/david-nash/index.htm








Image from: http://contemporaryartetc.com/2011/02/19/art-e-facts-83-david-nash/

BioArt is an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes. 
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioArt