In this interview, C.O.L.A. 2021 Visual Art Fellow Lia Halloran discusses the inspiration and research behind her largest work to date, “The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons”, and how its layering and processes of cyanotype, photographic negatives and positives and various mark making continues the artist’s ongoing interest in bringing scientific concepts, inventions, and experiences into a contemporary art setting. With its consuming scale, material exploration and spirit of discovery, Halloran expands notions of time and space to create a “temple to the sun.”
Explore the intersections of art and science through the practice of individual artists who weave science, technology, and methods of discovery in their practices. The artistic process, much like the scientific process, is a form of inquiry vital to learning—an open-ended process of investigation, speculation, imagination, and experimentation. We’ll highlight artists who clarify the reciprocal relationship between art and science and how it can inspire a deeper understanding of the world.
Join Lumen and curator Stephen Nowlin for a seminar focused on the SKY exhibition at the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California.
During the seminar, we will hear from curator Stephen Nowlin as he introduces the exhibition. We will then hear presentations from artists Laura Parker, Rebeca Méndez, Lia Halloran and Carol Saindon.
Dava Sobel, Janna Levin, and Lia Halloran discuss about The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, Dava Sobel's latest book, about women who worked for the Harvard College Observatory, studying glass photographs of the stars. They developed a system to classify and measure stars that is still in use today.