My piece Acid Rain has received a Special Recognition Award from the LightSpaceTime gallery. I entered it in "The Elements" competition for October/November. They received 473 entries from 12 different countries from around the world, including the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Croatia. In addition, they had entries from 29 different states.
Beginning this week I am introducing a new series of artwork called "The Elements". The series is based off of my artistic interpretation of each element found on the periodic table. The entire project was well over a year in the making.
It all began as an academic exercise while I was in college. I was just starting my Chemistry courses and had no prior knowledge of anything chemistry related. Therefore, I decided to make it part of my study to create each element from the table individually and to research each of these as I designed them. This would allow me to have a better insight as to what was going on in my classes. While designing each element in fractal form, I worked very hard to represent it accurately. Sometimes this was a literal interpretation and at other times it was more of a theoretical interpretation. As an example, element 036 (Kr - Krypton) is known to have green and orange spectral lines. Thus I strove to emulate these lines in my design. Chlorine is a greenish-yellow gas, and I worked hard to convey this in the fractal design of this element. Another example: carbon has four bonding sites, thus in my artwork I designed a chain with four bonding sites repeating over and over. As a final example, I chose to represent element 029 (Cu - Copper) in it's aqueous form, as this is what chemists would be most used to seeing.
As I continued in my progress of completing the elements, I decided to put them together in the form of the Periodic Table. I did this not only to give the scientific community something unique and different, but I also did so to help other students. It is my aim that the visual representation of the elements would help to solidify in their minds what the elements are and how they conduct themselves. I worked incredibly hard, checking and re-checking facts to ensure that this Periodic Table is accurate. The information on it is accurate as of September 07, 2008. I have not updated any information since this date. The table has been purchased many times (and by several colleges throughout the US) and can been seen in its entirety and purchased here.
Each week I will be releasing a new element, in it's order on the Periodic Table. I will provide not only some information on the element itself, but also my inspiration and thoughts as I created it. Each piece of artwork will be made available in a limited edition series of 25. Once the allotted images are sold out, they will no longer be available for purchase. Every element will be made available as a 20"x15"x0.3" Flat Mounted piece that is signed and ready to hang. The elements are created on smooth satin cloth that is mounted as a mini-gallery wrap over non-warping materials. As with all of my artwork, only the highest quality materials are used. You will also receive a signed and dated Certificate of Authenticity (COA) which shows the edition you purchased. You can access the series at any time by clicking the "Current Series" tab at the top of the page.
I hope that you will enjoy this series just as much as I did making it!
Beginning today, November 7th 2011, all artwork shipped within the 48 contiguous United States now ships for free. Order 1 or 20 pieces, and each ships directly to you with no additional costs.
Shipments to Alaska and Hawaii as well as Canada and other international shipments are still required to pay shipping charges at the current time.
My piece Punchcard has been selected by the judges of the Los Alamos' Science & Math-based Art Competition to receive Special Merit Recognition for Visual Interest and Impact. This is a 3rd place honor in the festival known as the “Next Big Idea Festival” which is taking place on Saturday, September 17th, 2011 in Los Alamos, NM. The festival begins at 11:00am and goes through 3:00pm. If you're able to attend, please do so as the winning pieces will be on display.
You can learn more about the festival at www.nextbigideala.com
Punchcard embraces the beauty of randomness. It was developed using a combination of grammatical and mathematical programming languages. The development of Punchcard is all about states. The individual state defines the co-ordinate system and the corresponding color. I then defined rules for transforming the states. The rules included such things as rotations, color switches, translating across planes, and so forth. I used a random seed to generate the structures seen here. This was simply the framework, and the output was a series of numbers in an array/matrix. I then used a physics based ray-tracing engine to render the actual artwork into the final image. While being a highly technical process, it still is able to produce incredible artwork!
The following are the biographies for the Science & Math-based Art Competition's four judges.
Jack Ox has been engaged in the practice of music visualization for over 30 years, with a distinguished history of international exhibitions.In the past she participated in Vom Klang der Bilder at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in 1985, and exhibition covering the 20th C. in the realm of visual music. During the 90’s she worked on Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate, making a presentation at the Centre Georges Pompidou during the Kurt Schwitters retrospective in Paris in 1994, and in 2004 she showed the complete Ursonate at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland, in conjunction with the first Polish Kurt Schwitters exhibition, which was sponsored by the German government. The exhiibition also went to the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. She spent a decade creating a complete cycle of 12 paintings based on Anton Bruckner’s 8th Symphony , which was presented 1996 at the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Austria, during the 100th anniversary of Bruckner’s death.
She was an independent artist for most of those years, but is now an Associate Research Professor in the department of Music at the University of New Mexico. She has been working on the Gridjam a real-time, geographically distributed, networked multimedia event, using the new high speed international LambdaRail network, which takes place in the virtual reality world of the 21st C. Virtual Color Organ. Ox is also the artist-scientist coordinator for ISEA2012, that will take place in NM next year.
To access her work please go to www.jackox.net
When I first became interested in woodworking many years ago, I found that it was a form of therapy after a day of work in the scientific arena. I am a nuclear engineer by trade, and working in my shop at night offered a pleasant change of pace for me. Gradually, I accumulated a nice set of tools. My first attempts were primarily furniture pieces for the house. For my daughter’s wedding present, I fashioned a bed for her and her new husband, which pleased both them and me. I followed this with a rocking cradle when they had their first child. Since then I have made several wooden objects for my children and grandchildren and I discovered how enjoyable it was to share my woodworking results with others.
Wood has always fascinated me. As some people crave textile sensations, seeing a fine piece of wood and imagining what it could become has the same effect on me. In 2007, I applied to and was accepted into the Northwestern Woodworking School, taught by Gary Rogowski, a regular contributor and editor of Fine Woodworking magazine. This two-year course, taught at the Northwest Woodworking Studio in Portland, Oregon, really opened my eyes to the artistic side of woodworking. We were encouraged to see beyond the lines and angles of the product and to stretch our imaginations to the beauty of the finished product. Every three months, we completed a new project, consisting of boxes, cabinets, tables, and chairs. At the completion of the course, I became an accredited Master Woodworker. Though I am an engineer at heart, I find that designing graceful, creative wooden objects has brought out a new side of me that I did not know existed. Matching the correct wood with a design or using an inlay to make a statement is an exciting part of the design process. My choice woods are cherry, birds-eye maple, and walnut.
For the last year I have been working with my favorite woods to create various types of boxes. These are regular boxes, sculptured boxes, boxes with flair, and some with an attitude. I hope you enjoy seeing my creations and the sensuous nature of the wood in their composition and makeup.
My formal education includes a Bachelor of Science in engineering from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Master of Science in nuclear engineering and a Doctorate in nuclear engineering from Columbia University. I am also a retired US Navy captain.
Jonathan Wolfe, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Fractal Foundation, a New Mexico nonprofit that uses the beauty of fractals to inspire interest in science, math and art.
With a scientific background in visual neurophysiology, and an international reputation as the artist behind the flying fractal hotair balloons, Dr. Wolfe is ideally situated to promote both the beauty and the intellectual impact of fractals. Since 2003, he has taught over 21,000 children and 10,000 adults about fractals, and he is the creator of the extremely popular First Friday Fractals show at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
To learn more, please visit http://fractalfoundation.org/
Before moving to Los Alamos Keely Garrity worked under an Art Commission in Idaho serving the community by providing many art and cultural events such as Artwalk, Young Peoples Arts Festival, Children’s Entertainment Series, Music in the Park, the Farmers Market and many public art opportunities. This summer she joined the Los Alamos National Bank marketing team as the Marketing Web Administrator. When she isn’t chauffeuring her children around she can be found in the garden, near the stove, snapping photographs, designing various spaces or exploring New Mexico.
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