Cosmic Collaboration between Artist and Scientist
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Artist Josiah McElheny has been collaborating with cosmologist David Weinberg, Ph.D. on a series of objects that reflect cosmological theories such as the Big Bang. Walking into the lobby of the Phoenix Art Museum last night was to come face to face with McElheny’s The Last Scattering Surface, a large glass sculpture that seeks to explore issues of modernism and cosmology.
The work, hung at eye level at the museum entrance, is a handsome piece that pulls us back to a late 1960’s aesthetic. A central glowing orb made of multiple smaller lights explode outward in space, forming clusters of glass galaxies at each endpoint. (more…)
