Hi,
For more information or images regarding the
upcoming Energy exhibition at Art Center College of Design's Alyce de Roulet Williamson
Gallery running October 8, 2010 through January 9, 2011, please contact me at
310.857.6994 or via email. Also, feel free to get in touch with me if
you're interested in speaking with Williamson Gallery director and exhibition curator
Stephen Nowlin.
Thanks!
~Jeannine
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ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ANNOUNCES ENERGY
Art and Natural Forces To Intersect In
New Williamson Gallery Exhibition
October 8, 2010 - January 9, 2011
(Pasadena, CALIF.) September 16, 2010 – Natural
forces as seen through the prisms of science, art, and history are the subject
of a new exhibition at Art Center College of Design. ENERGY
will open at the college’s Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery on October 8,
2010 and continue through January 9, 2011.
ENERGY is
one of a series of Art Center projects that explores the intersection of the
left and right brain—of art and science—a nexus that provides a vision for
sustainable and innovative design in the Twenty-First century.
The exhibit investigates how natural forces shape not only material
things, but affect our emotions and intellect as well.
“Humans so often regard Nature—a vast
petri dish of interlacing energies evolving its existence with little need of a
human presence—with an overwhelming sense of sublime purpose.
Lurking in this regard for Nature is another significant curiosity—that
we commonly describe differences in the ways of science and the ways of art by
using terms filled with tension and conflict, as if the two domains reside at
polar ends of a spectrum,” explained Williamson Gallery director
and exhibition curator Stephen Nowlin. “These are the tensions embedded
in ENERGY, which draws its artifacts from the domains of
contemporary art, science, and history.”
Video installations that capture the rawness and
intensity of an icy, rushing waterfall or the texture and mutability of an
undulating field of grass, a photo series of starlings
in flight—simultaneously many organisms and one unit, and NASA images of the
iron-blue heat emanating from our sun invite the viewer to make an emotional
connection to matter and energy, while reminding us that nature is not always
inherently beautiful—it can be so much more.
Art Center College of Design’s learning process will
be represented in ENERGY by students who will use a section of
the gallery as their studio, studying and putting on display their exploration
of the question “Where do Energy and Design
Intersect?”
ENERGY is funded in
part by the Williamson Gallery Patrons and a grant from the Pasadena Art
Alliance. Individuals and organizations contributing resources to
ENERGY include Southern California artist Rebeca Mendez; New York
photographer Richard Barnes; the Department of Geological and Planetary
Sciences, California Institute of Technology; the Dawn Mission, Jet Propulstion
Laboratory; the Solar System Visualization Project, Jet Propulsion Laboratory;
The Huntington Library, Rare Books Collection; The Prelinger Archive;
Archive.org; and students in the
Design for Sustainability 2 class and their instructors Heidrun
Mumper-Drumm and Fridolin Beisert.
The Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College
of Design is located at 1700 Lida Street in Pasadena. Williamson Gallery hours
are noon to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday and noon to 9:00 p.m. Friday; the
gallery is closed Mondays and holidays. For more gallery information, call (626)
396-2446.
About the Alyce de
Roulet Williamson Gallery
The Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College
of Design has established a national reputation for its ongoing series of
exhibitions exploring the boundaries, relationships, and perspectives of art and
science.
Recent Williamson Gallery exhibitions in the series include
OBSERVE, a collaboration with the NASA/JPL-Caltech Spitzer Space
Telescope;
In the Dermisphere, a look at the natural history of
skin; and
TOOLS, an exploration of extensions to human biology.
For Google links to the Williamson Gallery art/science programs, visit
williamsongallery.net/google.
About Art Center College of
Design
Founded in 1930
and located in Pasadena, California, Art Center College of Design is a global
leader in art and design education and the first design school to receive the
United Nations’ Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) status. Art Center offers
bachelor’s degrees in advertising, entertainment design, environmental design,
film, fine art, graphic design, illustration, photography and imaging, product
design and transportation design. A graduate program of study can lead to a
master’s degree in art, broadcast cinema, industrial design and media design.
The college also offers a series of programs for the general public, including
Art Center at Night, its continuing studies program; Saturday High for high
school students; Art Center for Kids for children in the fourth through eighth
grades; and the Design-Based Learning program for K-12 educators.
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