Art for the 2013 JMM Conference

 

 

Still Life; pencil on paper, 15" x 20"

 

Jurors for the Joint Mathematics Meeting accepted this drawing for the art exhibition at the conference on January 9 – 12, 2013, which will be held in San Diego, CA.  The Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society sponsor this annual meeting.  JMM is the largest math conference worldwide and includes sessions on art and math as well as a display of art based upon mathematical approaches.

Fall National 2012 Show at the Impact Artists Gallery

 

The Altar Screen; pencil on paper, 20" x 15"

The Impact Artists Gallery in Buffalo, NY is exhibiting their Fall National 2012 show from October  31 - November 24.  Located at 2495 Main Street in the Tri-Main center, the gallery is one of several enterprises utilizing space at the old Trico plant.

The juror for the show, Norine Spurling, chose both of my submissions for display.  The one pictured here is The Altar Screen.  The curve of the screen is based upon the Golden ratio, the priest's robe is decorated with cross tessellations, and the far right icon alternates between foreground and background space.

Environmental Issues at Rochester Greenovation Community Gallery

The Secretary's Desk; pencil on paper, 24" x 18"

From October 20 to November 17 the Rochester Greenovation Community Gallery, 1199 E. Main Street in Rochester, is exhibiting artwork with themes of political, social, and environmental issues.  On the latter, I decided to enter The Secretary's Desk into the show. 

The Secretary’s Desk concerns the problem of extinction that goes along with evolutionary development.  Although extinction may be in the natural course of biological events, it is the case that there have been needless extinctions caused by human interference.  

How much this may damage the Earth’s ecosystems is difficult to say, but it is likely not worth the risk to continue in ignorance.  Noted within the drawing are extinct plant and animal species, a skull of Homo Sapiens warns of this possible future for ourselves.

21st Regional Artists Exhibition at the Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Still Life; pencil on paper, 15" x 20"

The Western New York Artists Group (http://www.wnyag.com/) sponsors a regional, juried exhibition of art each year.  The juror, Anthony Bannon, approved one of my two submissions for the show, the drawing Still Life.  I did not have a photograph of it (artists had to bring their work to the gallery for the jurying process) so I took one of it at the exhibition.  The staff hung it right near their front window and it was difficult to get a straight-on shot.  You can see a better photograph of it by clicking on Gallery I.  The show, on display at the Art Dialogue Gallery, One Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, opened August 24 and will close September 28. 

The Schrodingers' Cats

The Schrodingers' Cats; pencil on paper, 15" x 20"

 

The Schrodingers' Cats is one of my four drawings in the online exhibition of the Next Big Idea SMART show (Science, Math, Art), http://www.nextbigideala.com/smart2012contestpage.

The SMART virtual show is a part of the September event held in Los Alamos, NM.  The virtual show, as its site comments, "...is an international competition, with its first successful round culminating at the 2011 Next Big Idea Festival."  The jurors require artists to present a scientific or mathematical principle in an artistic medium of choice.  

Here, Professor Schrodinger opens the box to check on the status of the cat, and their quantum world splits into two!  (No animals were harmed in the production of this drawing.)

Nightly News Report

 

                                             Nightly News Report; pencil on paper, 20" x 15"

A print of Nightly News Report will be on display at The Shoe Factory's "Fly Me to the Moon" exhibit this Summer.  The original medium is pencil on paper.  This print was made on bamboo paper, which helps to show the various grades of shading.

Commentary on Juncture

The drawing presents three impossible figures joined, appropriately enough, in an impossible way.  A cousin to the figure of the Necker cube though a bit more sophisticated, it shows the ambiguity of each oval hoop's form as well as the relation of each to the others.

This drawing won a juror's award at a Spring 2012 art show.

Juncture

Juncture; pencil on paper, 14" x 18"

A Square for Penrose to be on display at the Bridges Math Art 2012 Conference

A Square for Penrose; pencil on paper, 15" x 20"

In July 2012, the Bridges Math Art Conference will take place in the Baltimore, MD region at Towson University.  A Square for Penrose, along with two other drawings of mine, will be on display during the conference.  From the website description, "The Bridges Conference, the largest mathematics and art interdisciplinary conference in the world, has traveled to cities in North America and Europe, and attracted participants from over thirty countries."

Artwork in Journal of Mathematics and the Arts

The drawing Apokatastasis will appear in the December 2012 issue of JMA.  I do not believe it is online for free but if so then I will provide a link here.

Quantum Physics Artists? Featured on their Website in March 2012....

 A Paradox for Meditation; pencil on paper, 9" x 12"

Next month the IAQPA, the International Association of Quantum Physics Artists (that is a mouthful!) will feature six of my drawings on their website which you can visit through the link here: http://internationalassociationofquantumartists.yolasite.com/.  One of the drawings on display will be A Paradox for Meditation, a drawing of impossible geometry.

News on Apokatastasis and MAA Focus

Apokatastasis appears in the Feb/Mar 2012 edition of MAA Focus for an article on the JMM conference show.  The acronym means the Mathematical Association of America.  Now that the journal is online, here is the link to that issue in which the article is on pages 8 - 9: http://digital.ipcprintservices.com/publication/?i=100359.

Commentary on Sub Specie Aeternitatis

Sub Specie Aeternitatis not only translates "under the aspect of eternity" but is also the title of a drawing.  This drawing and two others will be in the digital art show at the Science Online 2012 conference taking place at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.  Since 2007, the Research Triangle area of North Carolina has hosted a conference concerning how the World Wide Web is changing the way science is communicated, taught, and done.

In "Sub Specie Aeternitatis" one sees the "big picture" from ants to planets.  The drawing indicates a human presence as well.

The other two drawings in the SciOn12 conference show are "Fearful Symmetries" and "Juncture," all three drawings are in my JAlbum portfolio.