Willie Cole on Park Avenue October 24, 2023.Ad Reinhardt at David Zwirner Gallery November 9, 2023.Josiah McElheny at James Cohan Gallery November 13, 2023.Andrew Kuo at Broadway Gallery December 11, 2023.DIA:Beacon + Visiting Artist at “Magic Books and and Paper Toys” Class by Esther K. Smith January 12, 2024. Go to a gallery of my own art by clicking on the Chaos drawing below By cutting up the drawings and rearranging the sections I have made collages and Artist’s books allowing the viewer to focus on small sections of the curve. I have made work emphasizing the negative spaces, painstakingly filling in between the lines. I continue to explore the shapes produced through this process. either shifted or rotated or, and superimposed on top of each other, creating some surprising interactions. I have made numerous drawings using multiple Fibonacci circle curves. This elegant structural unit is the starting point for all of this new work. The finished product was finally an image with potential. I repeated this with each of the circle templates. Then I drew multiple circles until the first circle was completely inside the second circle, sharing one circumference point. Using these line segments as a guide, I dragged the template of the first circle, so that the center point stayed on the guideline. I came up with a method of drawing using the line segments created by connecting the center points of adjacent circles. I did not want the drawing to look static but wanted the image to have a sense of movement. I made a number of curves on transparent paper and I began to superimpose and shift the images. I began a process of using this curve as my basic building block. I was still not satisfied with the image, however. It is the smaller of the two angles formed by two radii that divide the circumference of a circle into two arcs so that the ratio of the measurement of the large arc to the small arc is equal to the ratio of the measurement of the total circumference to the measurement of the larger arc.Īfter curving the series of circles, the space created between the arcs started to look much more interesting. The golden angle has a measurement of approximately 137.51 degrees. After some time it became clear that the best angle to use was the Golden Angle. Instead of having the center points of the circles line up, the line segments connecting the center points should create angles less than 180 degrees. I broke up the straight line connecting the center points into angled line segments. I decided to continue to manipulate the circles. I immediately noticed there were some aesthetically interesting shapes created by the intersecting circles, but I was not satisfied. In this format it is possible to draw a straight line connecting the center points of each of the circles. Then each subsequent circle started at the center point of its predecessor. then I began the second circle at that center point. I drew the first circle and marked its center point. I started off by drawing the circles in a straight line. I made templates for the first eight circles in the series and started to experiment. This series of circles illustrates the Fibonacci Sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8…, though the measurements of their areas. The measurement of the area of the fifth circle is five times the first, etc. The measurement of the area of the fourth circle is three times the first. The measurement of the area of the third circle is twice the first. The measurement of the area of the first circle in the sequence determines the area of each subsequent circle.The measurement of the area of the second circle is the same as that of the first circle. This experiment is a different way to look at the ratios of consecutive Fibonacci numbers. My new series of drawings investigates the visual qualities of intersecting circles whose area measurements are in proportions related to the Fibonacci Sequence. The recursive nature of the sequence makes it an interesting subject for abstract drawing. Through the years I have made many drawings exploring the Fibonacci Sequence. This is a process that took 18 months to develop. I will map the artistic process from my selecting a Mathematical theme, through the many steps it takes to complete a drawing. I will discuss the process I developed to to create my most recent series of drawings, which I refer to as “Fibonacci Circle Curves”. Each artist follows her own path, but translating the aesthetic elements of a mathematical topic into the visual realm of Art is my personal journey. This is a question people have asked me many times. “How does an artist take inspiration from a Mathematical concept and transform it into a work of art?”
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