According to this pithy quote we just Googled, “Every art should become science, and every science should become art.” (Take a bow, Friedrich von Schlegel, old-time German philosopher!)
Noteworthy Las Vegas art photographer Linda Alterwitz has long had a similar convergence in mind, visible in her own work, of course — in last year’s sweeping retrospective While I Am Still at the Sahara West Library, but for years before that — and now in a show she's curated, on view at the Contemporary Arts Center through July 29.
Art + Science brings together the work of four artists “whose disciplines represent unique combinations of artistic, academic and scientific practice,” Alterwitz writes in her exhibit PR.
They are: Seattle artist Rebecca Cummins, Kate Breakey of Tucson, L.A.’s Ariana Page Russell and Montana artist Elizabeth Stone.
The four will discuss the artistic and scientific interplays in their work — Cummins with technology and culture; Breakey and Stone with biology; Russell with skin — at 5p, Friday, July 8. Alterwitz and CAC President Melissa Petersen will lead the gallery talk. Location: 900 Las Vegas Blvd. S., #150, on the first floor of the Soho Lofts building. Tell ’em Von Schlegel sent you.