Towards a Warm Math

April 22 – June 3, 2012

Curated by Chris Wiley

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
Stephen Vitiello
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein

Press
Will Heinrich for The New York Observer / GalleristNY
Chloe Wyma for ARTINFO

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.

To learn more about the artists in Towards a Warm Math click here to download a PDF.