Mapping Sandy

While I am respectfully (and fearfully) waiting for my personal encounter with Sandy, when the hurricane will intersect my axis mundi, I am sharing images and useful links.

Credit: NOAA's GOES-13 satellite  Oct. 28 at 1302 UTC

Credit: NASA GOES Project

NYC Evacuation Zones

Emergency Information
National Weather Service

Evacuation Map

Google Crisis Response Maps

Nasa Satellite Imagery 

Vernissages | Bodyspace at Sean Kelly

On my way to the opening, a view of midtown skyline, from Tenth Avenue

Antony Gormley's three-dimensional steel work "Bodyspace" inaugurated the relocation of Sean Kelly new space, on Tenth Avenue.
Sean Kelly's new space occupies former Exit Art location; the historical not-for profit gallery sadlyclosed a few month earlier, following Jeanette Ingberman's passing in 2011. The last Exit Art exhibition was metaphorically titled "Every Exit Is an Entrance".

Sean Kelly's new space, formerly "Exit Art"

A quite different intention and scene in the new commercial gallery, representing many international art celebrities... My visual memories of the evening:

Vernissages | John Baldessari "Double Play " at Marian Goodman Gallery

Vernissages | Chelsea, October 18

My favorite exhibition of the evening was  Gulay Semercioglu "Variations on Line" at Leila Heller Gallery. The three-dimensional work features complex geometries fabricated with simple materials —wood panels,  wire and nails— which interact with light, generating kaleidoscopic visual labyrinths.

 Gulay Semercioglu "Variations on Line" @ Leila Heller Gallery

Chuck Close @ The Pace Gallery

Vernissages | Frank Boros and John Haubrich at Fox Gallery

The Fox Gallery is presenting an exhibit of two different media which really works.  Painting and graphite don’t always partner well visually, but in this case the contrast in the techniques, shapes, and colors particular to each, makes for a  flowing and stimulating perambulation. 
The 2012 graphite by Frank Boros, “A Number for Elaine,” with its intertwining and overlapping lines, circles, and spatial areas, illustrate Boros’ statement: “I began to explore, to push, to question and to wonder.  This simple play of the circle and a square has become an inquiry.”  Inspiration for these works came to Boros from a more than six-hour stay in a hospital emergency room, gazing up at the ceiling--a firmly creative response to an inhospitable and unwelcoming setting.
John Haubrich takes his inspiration from more traditional sources: the beauty of the countryside with its numerous rivers, lakes and grid of the farm fields from his boyhood growing up in southern Minnesota.  But he also finds beauty in damaged and decaying elements, such as abandoned farms, factories, and gravel pits.  His painting “Smile” from 2011 juxtaposes rectangular areas—one with human bones, a smiling face with eyes blackened over, and blood-red swashes of color interspersed with running lines of text which seem to merge his responses to beauty and decay.

Elizabeth Davis

 

An Art and Science Publishing R|Evolution | POLYHEDRA featured in the iBookstore

A niche title made to the featured page of the iTunes bookstore.
In POLYHEDRA interactive 3D models brings to life pages of ancient manuscripts, combining them with the latest digital media to deliver multidisciplinary content where art and science are beautifully integrated. The beauty of geometry can be experienced through interacting with touch screen and text in the enhanced electronic books of the series "Mathematical Sublime" — an hybrid of art and science content where geometry is presented in an art-book format to educate and entertain.

An Art and Science Publishing R|Evolution | Mathematical Sublime Series

I am pleased to announce the publication of the first two interactive books of “The Mathematical Sublime” series: a multimedia intersection of art and science where geometry is presented in a digital art book format to educate and entertain.

Available on the iBookstore:

POLYHEDRA | The Regular Solids: their History and Evolution 

POLYHEDRA 2 | Star Polyhedra, Archimedean andOther Solids

Views from Space and Time

On September 25 the image " eXtreme Deep Field", or XDF, was assembled from 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The XDF shows about 5,500 galaxies "The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see." For more information visit the Hubble Site.