Ascension

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Ascension

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By Juliana Kang Robinson

Gouache, silver ink, fabric collage (SUMM)

44”x30”

http://julianakangrobinson.com/

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Juliana Kang Robinson is an interdisciplinary artist creating work that reflects on themes of territoriality, holism, unity and separation in the world.

Born in South Korea, she received her Master in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the recipient of the 2018-2019 ArtBridge Fellowship at Pratt Fine Arts Center. In 2019 she completed a public art commission that can be viewed on 1st Avenue in Downtown Seattle in the form of crosswalk paintings and street signs for the Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.

SUMM For the Love of Math! curated by Timea Tihanyi.

For many years, I’ve been collaborating with mathematicians and inviting them to have conversations with me about what their process of creative research is like. As a visual artist myself, I have long been intrigued by forms that attempt to distill complexity to some form of universal essence, abstraction that gets its special flavor from the makers touch, visual metaphors that resemble both architectural and biological beings, and the algorithmic logic of iteration, which creates multiples by constantly taking apart and reconfiguring.

The collection of artworks in this exhibition presents the viewer with a diverse array of creative practices, from traditional art mediums, like painting, drawing and sculpture, to digitally generated two and three-dimensional works, participatory games, puzzles, poetry and dance. The invited artists all share a kind of visual sensibility, and they also share something else important: mathematical thinking. Whether they are mathematicians, whose cutting-edge research is aided by visualization, or math educators bringing complex mathematical concepts closer to all of us with playfulness and charm, or art/design professionals inspired by the rhythm of abstraction, each exhibiting artist’s work explores an exciting and immersive universe. Their toolkits and intensions for giving form to an idea may be completely different, but each professes the artist’s passion for a healthy sort of exercising of the gray matter in the brain, some form of mathematical thinking.

Timea Tihanyi, visual artist, curator, educator