Chaos, Other Worlds and the Universe
European Space Agency (ESA)
Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany
September 21- January 15, 2024
My art tries to show the expanse of nature that goes far beyond our world and what we are normally accustomed to.
Hidden Landscape
Digital print on aluminum composite,
8 x 10 inches, August 2022
This is a zoomed view of a small portion of painting done in 2022 entitled, Spring Sky. During editing a digital copy for an exhibition in New York, I discovered when tiny portions were magnified, they were entire paintings of other scenes. This piece is a one such portion of an area only about 2 x 3 in.
Violet Pathway
Digital print on aluminum composite,
9 x 9 inches, August 2022
Like Hidden Landscape, this is another magnified view of a tiny section of Spring Sky.
Nowhere but Somewhere
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, September 8, 2017
This piece is an abstraction of being nowhere but at the same time, somewhere, as a mysterious drifting cloud.
Dialog
Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, August 15, 2017
This painting is an abstract expressionist rendering of a dialogue on the structure of space and time.
Clearing
Oil bar and acrylic on canvas, 22 x 26 inches, January 21, 2017
An abstract view of the night sky through the trees, this painting bears resemblance to the James Webb Telescrope’s photo of the Tarantula Nebula in 2022.
X3
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, May 2015
I have always viewed the world both as a mathematician and as an artist. X3 expresses that in an abstract expressionist fashion.
Chaos Trajectory to the Moon
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, 2009
In an abstract expressionist style, this shows a trajectory to the Moon moving throughout all the chaos of gravity fields.
Cosmic Microwaves of the Universe
Oil on Canvas, 30 x 15 inches, September 12, 2006
Depicting the microwave background radiation of the Universe, this painting was inspired by the results of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) mission of NASA.
Map of Universe
Acrylic on canvas, 8 feet x 1 foot, 2004
This painting portrays the map of the entire Universe that was developed Princeton astrophysicist, Professor Emeritus, J.R Gott III. The two panels show the Universe with Earth at the bottom to the big bang at the very top.
Stars Over Islands On Another World
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, 2000
Islands under a pitch black star studded sky could be on another world. This is a companion piece to the painting named Starscape Over Mountains On Another World which is part of the NASA Smithsonian Collection in Washington, DC.
Low Fuel Route to Moon
Pastel on paper, 16 x 20 inches, 1986
This pastel painting was done to try and find a new route to the Moon that used no fuel for lunar capture, called ballistic capture. At the time, I was working on a mission study at JPL that tasked me with a 3-month deadline to come up with what is now known as a ballistic capture transfer and a weak stability boundary. A ballistic capture transfer had never been found. The concept of Weak Stability Boundary was only theoretical and had never been applied. As an act of desperation, I drew a picture and hoped the brush strokes may reveal a ballistic capture transfer and a weak stability boundary. They surely did. The brush strokes translated themselves into numbers that worked in the NASA computer system. It was the first time a low fuel route to the Moon was ever found. This route has been used by ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft in 2004. This was an unique historical situation of art giving rise to a scientific discovery.
A Ringed Planet
Oil on Canvas, 35 x 35 inches, 1981
Started in 1973, I spent several years to complete this piece. I tried to give a sense of what one might see from the ground looking up at the edges of the rings of an enormous planet as it rises over the horizon.
