Metric on a Torus contributors, artist John Newman and mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz will be at the gallery to discuss their work and practice. This conversation, in conjunction with our current exhibition, aims to create a dialogue between the respective fields of art and mathematics.

The current group show Metric on a Torus consists of artists’ works framed on the walls and mathematicians’ notes presented on tables. This dual presentation alludes to the differences in the “function” of the work, and to the ways in which artists and mathematicians use visual languages to their own ends. Without knowing art or math, one could mistake a mathematician’s notes for an artist’s sketchbook – or vice versa. The two fields are seen as separate today — housed in discrete rooms of schools and far flung buildings at universities. But do these two fields share more than we realize?

Visit the gallery website for information on the show.
Download the full press release here.