Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/20/2024
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
Mount Wilson Observatory
Category(ies)
“Of Sea and Sky” exhibition at the Mount Wilson Observatory
The Of Sea and Sky exhibition at the Mount Wilson Observatory, open 1:00 – 5:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday until October 20, inspires wonder.
The exhibition is curated Stephen Nowlin, whose 2020 Sky exhibit at ArtCenter explored the same nexus of art and science. This thematic reworking seems larger, encompassing multitudes. A dozen or so of his photos and prints are on one side of the curving interior wall and read from the left they suggest an ignorance and fear of the spaces beyond our planet. However, as we move rightward past the photos and text — the print in a whirlpool design — the idea is planted that the ignorance has yielded over time to knowledge, the realization that our world and other worlds, other planets, share the same rocky DNA. This is the theme underlying This Land, a series of photos that Nowlin edits to juxtapose the topography of Earth landscapes with those of other planets, to say we are a distant relative to those distant, cold places whether we like it or not.
Of Sea and Sky will be open at the Mt. Wilson Observatory on weekend afternoons through October 20 (except concert dates: Sept. 8, Oct. 6).
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