Math + Art

Geometry, numbers, and graphs are means to understand nature and help overcome our human inconsistencies and emotions. The artists in this exhibition, however, infuse these same tools with messiness, warmth, and humor, not to mention elegance and wonder. No cold logic here. These artworks also bring us back to the awe and puzzlement that propel mathematicians, scientists, and artists to explore the world around us. Artists such as Herbert Bayer, Jónsi, Xylor Jane, Dorthea Rockburne, Bridget Riley, Jong Oh, Fred Eversley, and Bernar Venet reveal all the varied ways that artists since the 1960s have harnessed, challenged, and flaunted the rigor and precision afforded by mathematics.