Exhibition

Tertium Organum show by Laura Whitcomb

22 Aug 2022 – 15 Oct 2022

Regular hours

Monday
11:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 17:00
Thursday
11:00 – 17:00
Friday
11:00 – 17:00

Free admission

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LA native Laura Whitcomb premiers her art show Tertium Organum at Eagle Rock Center for the Arts.

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This event is RSVP/appointment only. Visitors must show ID and wear masks. Make an appointment at info@cfaer.org or info@labelcuratorial.com

WHAT: The Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, The Pasadena Art Alliance and Label Curatorial present the first installment of an exhibition documenting how mathematics has been a foundational tool to convey the unknown through the course of art history. This exhibition explores the fin du siecle phenomenon where higher geometry and advanced mathematics emerged from communities engaging the esoteric schools and their revival of lost wisdom.

This exhibition is based on the Ukrainian-born P.D. Ouspensky’s landmark publication Tertium Organum (1912) which transformed the conception of the nature of reality by engaging the Fourth Dimension in the years before Einstein’s explorations were widely distributed. Ouspensky posited a new metaphysical approach through the advances of science and higher mathematics and this exhibition explores artists engaging anthromophisism, hybridity, portals to enter the unseen and the mapping of space and unseen dimensions. Ouspensky’s publications were foundational to renowned artists of Suprematiism, Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism. The exhibition includes the artists of the California Dynaton Movement Gordon Onslow Ford and Wolfgang Paalen as well their close friend Roberto Matta whose work was transformed by Ouspensky’s ideas of art opening portals into unseen dimensions. This exhibition explores artists engaging his theories and philosophies outlined in Tertium Organum as well as his mentor Guirdjieff consciously and implicitly. This exhibition prepares its audience for Part 2 of the platform Investigating The Convergence of Mysticism and Mathematics as it explores the radical shifts when art convergences with scientific advance.

WHO: Laura Whitcomb, founder of Label Curatorial, an art house that produces catalogs on lesser known artists and stages exhibitions covering new territory for West Coast history, has announced four exciting art projects that will further California history.

In addition to this ongoing exhibit, Whitcomb has a book about the artist Paulina Peavy ( who is included in the exhibition) edited by emeritus LACMA curator and art historian Ilene Susan Fort published by the Andrew Edlin gallery. It follows Whitcomb’s first West Coast exhibition of the artist in over 70 years. As a result, Whitcomb was awarded top ten show (no.6) of Los Angeles for 2021 by Hyperallergic. Part 2 of this program exploring mysticism and mathematics at CFAER will be The Golden Ratio : A Procession which explores the impact of the Golden Ratio on art and music. This show will take place at CFAER and includes Anthony Gormley, Lygia Clark and Dorothea Rockburne and Gisela Colon among others.

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Roberto Matta

Wolfgang Paalen

Lynn Chadwick

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