Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science (1945-1990)

Edited with text by Michael Duncan, Sharrissa Iqbal. Text by Camille Fremontier-Murphy, Roger Malina, W. Patrick McCray, Matthew Simms, Jason Weems. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Amy Fortunato, Green Dragon Office. The synergy between art and science is an age-old tale; artists throughout time, from Leonardo da Vinci to Beeple, have incorporated newly discovered scientific theories and techniques into their practices. The PST ART project Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Scienceexplores a particularly fecund yet underexplored period in the history of art and science’s cross-fertilization. The development of postwar industry and research in Southern California inspired a host of artistic innovations; for decades, abstract artists from the region experimented with color, form and mediums, variously employing ideas or procedures gleaned from the latest developments in physics, astronomy and mathematics. Particles and Waves unites several generations of artists worki