Announcing a Getty exhibition with intro co-authored by Roger Malina
Palm Springs Art Museum is proud to host the exhibition Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science, 1945-1990 as part of the Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time. The exhibition will be on display at the museum September 14, 2024-February 23, 2025. See this.
Particles and Waves examines how concepts and technologies from the realms of advanced scientific research impacted the development of abstract (or non-figurative) styles of artwork in postwar Southern California. Uniting several generations of artists working in diverse materials and styles, the exhibition explores how subfields of scientific investigation inspired a range of non-figurative artworks by practitioners concerned with light, energy, motion, and time.
Getty is equally proud to work with co-curators Michael Duncan and Sharrissa Iqbal on a publication for the exhibition. A lavishly illustrated hardbound book will accompany the exhibition.
Three Leonardo articles will be reprinted in the exhibition catalogue.
1. Frank Malina, “Electric Light as a Medium in the Fine Arts,” Spring 1975
2. Bettina Brendel, “The Influence of Atomic Physics on My Painting,” Spring 1973
3. Robert Bassler, “Lenticular Polyester Resin Sculpture: Transparency and Light,” Summer 1972
The introductions have been drafted by Camille Fremontier-Murphy and Roger Malina.
About the Author:
Roger F. Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, with a specialty in extreme and ultraviolet astronomy, space instrumentation and optics. He served as director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence and was NASA Principal Investigator for the Extreme Ultraviolet Satellite project at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is also a publisher and editor in the new emerging research fields that connect the sciences and engineering to the arts, design and humanities. Since 1982, he has served as Executive Editor of the Leonardo Publications at MIT Press. He founded, and serves on the board of two nonprofits, ISAST in San Francisco and OLATS in Paris, which advocate and document the work of artists involved in contemporary science and technology.
He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology and Professor of Physics, at the University of Texas at Dallas and Directeur de Recherche for the CNRS in France. He serves as the Associate Director of ATEC, and founded the ArtSciLab in the ATEC program fall 2013.