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.

Sub Specie Aeternitatis

Sub Specie Aeternitatis; pencil on paper, 8" x 11"

Commentary on Apokatastasis

Apokatastasis means "restoration" or "return."  The reintegration of all creation to a unity, whether in the Stoic or in the Christian scheme, has been similar to the hope of other religions.

Here, two Klein surfaces (so-called "Klein bottles") unite though the creatures in each--Guinea Pig in one, Rodent Snake in the other--are inaccessible to each because of the bottles.  

In our world, a first thought may be that this is good from the view of the Guinea Pig, bad for the snake.  Could there ever be reconciliation between the two in another world?

The jurors for the Joint Mathematics Meeting accepted this drawing for the art exhibition in their conference on January 4 - 7, 2012, which will be held in Boston.  This conference is hosted by the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society.  JMM is the largest mathematics conference in the world and it includes sessions on art and mathematics as well as an exhibition of artwork based upon mathematical ideas.