Inverse, 36"x36", acrylic on canvas, $3800
Paradigm Shift
A paradigm shift denotes “a change in how a given society goes about organizing and understanding reality”.
For several years now I have been drawn to exploring the relationships between the nonvisible levels of subatomic reality and making visual art. I am not sure how this interest began, as there have been elements in my paintings for years that I now see as part of a pattern of which I was mostly unaware. My focus has evolved over time but what surfaces right now is the notion that I am involved, in my own personal way, with trying to construct visualizations that are suggestive of, but do not actually attempt to illustrate, concepts found within quantum physics. Those include the concepts of uncertainty, complimentarily, wave-particle duality, the observer effect and non-locality. To me these are fascinating concepts, which stretch my imagination as I attempt to apply them to visual art and painting in particular.
- James Minden, 2010
Transcend, 36"x36", acrylic on canvas, $3800
Wassily Kandinsky is reported to have said, “A scientific event cleared my way of one of the greatest impediments. This was the further division of the atom. The crumbling of the atom was to my soul like the crumbling of the whole world”. Abstract art emerged from the paradigm shift that occurred in the early 1900’s and we are left to imagine what will emerge from the next one.
Paradigm, 33"x33", acrylic on paper, $1800
Paradigm Shift will be exhibited until February 6th, 2010.
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