• CHRIS O'LEARY, GRAVITY WELL

    CHRIS O'LEARY, GRAVITY WELL

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Chris O'leary. Gravity Well

2 Nov 2024 – 17 May 2025

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Saturday
12:00 – 16:00
Monday
12:00 – 16:00
Tuesday
12:00 – 16:00
Wednesday
12:00 – 16:00
Thursday
12:00 – 16:00

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CSUF Begovich Gallery

Fullerton
California, United States

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Gravity Well usesmultimedia video installations and photographic works by artist Chris O'Leary, explores the historical developments and technological mechanisms that have granted humans the ability to perceive the otherwise imperceptible cosmic phenomena of gravitational-waves.

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O'Leary's research-based art practice frequently toggles between the application of sophisticated scientific knowledge and the philosophical enigmas and existential dilemmas that such formulations produce, with a particular fascination for the advanced instrumentation required to perceive these mysterious underpinnings of the universe. While previous projects by O'Leary have explored various earthbound observatories and labs designed to detect everything from light particles to dark matter, his latest body of work focuses on the unique instruments used to sense the ripples in space-time caused by the collision of massive black holes thousands of light years away. Central to the exhibition's presentation is documentary footage of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and its dual detectors in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana. Through custom software, O'Leary combines video, sound, and images with generative effects in real time to exemplify the distortional vibrations of these gravitational waves. O'Leary further develops his artistic investigation of these themes through related large-scale photographic works cataloging the history and theory of the field, a series of 3D animated illusions presenting the anatomy of a gravitational wave, and a photographic film sculpture gathered from his extensive research at both LIGO facilities.

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