Jay Robinson: Quarks, Leptons and Peanuts
March 28 – June 21, 2015

Detail of an abstract watercolor on paper by Jay Robinson that shows a scattering of circular shapes in different colors, sometimes connected by faint dark lines, and a swath of blue in the background, suggesting constellations

Hours

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particle physics

This exhibition featured the work Jay Robinson has created since a fire in the mid-1990s destroyed much of his home and his studio. Since then, Robinson has changed the direction of his work and reinvented himself as an artist. While his later works may call to mind the work of Joan Miró, this interpretation would miss the way in which these paintings return to a key interest of his early career: the nature of the universe, especially as understood through particle physics. In the works of art in this exhibition, Robinson explores the universe and presents his imaginings of subatomic particles and their fundamental fields.

 

Curators
William U. Eiland, director, and Todd Rivers, head preparator

Sponsors
The W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art