ARTIST BIO

Jayadev Athreya is a Professor of Mathematics and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, the founder of the Washington Experimental Mathematics Lab, and the Interim Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. He is originally from Iowa. He graduated from Iowa State University, did his PhD at the University of Chicago, postdoctoral fellowships at Yale and Princeton, and was previously at the University of Illinois. He has held visiting positions in the UK, France, and in India. He is interested in geometry, dynamical systems, the creative processes of mathematics, and in comparisons to the creation of art.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Inelastic XV is a piece that interrogates ideas of numeration, representation, and motion, via a series of cyanotypes that represent phase portraits of a the motion of sticky particles. The cyanotypes were exposed in the Summer of 2020, and different conditions of light and shade created different effects of color and shadow.