April 22 - June 3, 2012 Opening reception: Sunday, April 22, 6 - 8pm
With Thomas Bayrle, Rossella Biscotti & Kevin van Braak, Lucas Blalock, Mel Bochner, Brody Condon, Guy de Cointet, Haris Epaminonda, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, John Houck, Will Insley, Yayoi Kusama, Barbara Kasten, Paul Laffoley, Oliver Laric, Ionel Talpazan, Melvin Way, Steven Vitiello, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
On Stellar Rays presents Towards A Warm Math, an exhibition comprised of works that mingle strategies and forms borrowed from the hard-edged fields of science, mathematics, and technology with qualities and approaches that are more expressly humanistic—works, in other words, that attempt to muddy the pellucid water of stubborn facts and with unruly sediments of the personal, the biomorphic, and the spiritual. They are works that act as solvents, softening the normally rigid demarcation lines that divide the perpetually warring disciplinary camps of our thought, and dissolving the walls erected between the realms of the subjective and the objective.
However, this act of blurring boundaries should not suggest the privileging of a single position. There is no attempt, here, to tear down the austere edifice of the sciences, or to whip art into shape. Rather, the works in the show merely embody an interweaving of the hard and the soft, the computational and the poetic, and assert the fluid, often idiosyncratic methodologies of their makers
The exhibition title is borrowed from Lucas Blalock's book of the same name, which includes an essay by John Houck. Available at Hassla Books.
For inquires please contact:
Candice Madey On Stellar Rays 133 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002 212.598.3012 Candice@onstellarrays.com www.onstellarrays.com
