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Exhibition Series PST ART: Art & Science Collide

Encounter the intersections of art and science at the Getty Center.

A donut-shaped form covered in many lines, both straight and undulating, sit on a plain background. The scene fades from a cyan blue at the top to a burnt orange at the bottom, and is covered in many
Torus, 2021, exhibition copy 2023, Deana Lawson. Transmission hologram on glass plate. Courtesy of the artist, Gagosian, New York, and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. © Deana Lawson. Photo: Matthew Schreiber

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PST ART is a groundbreaking cultural collaboration. Every five years, PST ART unites hundreds of artists around a single, electrifying theme at more than 60 exhibition spaces. While the theme is different each time, the heart of PST ART is always the distinctive cultural identity of Southern California, and the universal hunger for artistic and intellectual discovery.

The theme for this year’s edition is Art & Science Collide. Getty Museum exhibitions explore the many ways light impacts artists and their work—bending and refracting it, directing it through lenses, and freezing it in time. At the Research Institute, encounter collaborations between artists and engineers.

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  1. Abstracted Light: Experimental Photography

    Exhibition

    Black-and-white photo of a translucent white vortex spiraling in the center of the image.
    Vortex, 1933, Edward W. Quigley. Gelatin silver print. Getty Museum. © Estate of Edward W. Quigley

    Avant-garde photography, film, and time-based artworks from the 1920s to the ‘50s.

  2. Sculpting with Light: Contemporary Artists and Holography

    Exhibition

    A donut-shaped form covered in many lines, both straight and undulating, sit on a plain background. The scene fades from a cyan blue at the top to a burnt orange at the bottom, and is covered in many
    Torus, 2021, exhibition copy 2023, Deana Lawson. Transmission hologram on glass plate. Courtesy of the artist, Gagosian, New York, and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. © Deana Lawson. Photo: Matthew Schreiber

    Artworks that create the illusion of three-dimensional objects floating in space.

  3. Lumen: The Art and Science of Light

    Featured Exhibition

    A circular detail of a medieval illustration of men in white robes holding astronomical instruments toward a night sky with stars. The detail sits on a background of dark blue flanked by gold circles
    Astronomers on Mount Athos (detail), in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, about 1400–1425, Master of the Mandeville Travels. Tinted ink on parchment. The British Library Collection, Add. 24189, fol. 15. Image © The British Library Board

    See how optics, geometry, and astronomy impacted art and religious language in the Middle Ages.

  4. Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

    Exhibition

    Two children play in front of domed white floats in front of a white geodesic dome
    Robert Breer’s Floats outside the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion (detail), 1970. Chromogenic process. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, 2014.R.20. © Robert Breer/Kate Flax/gb agency, Paris. Photo: Shunk-Kender

    This exhibition tells the story of a mid-20th century collaboration between artists and engineers to form the group Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.).

Partnerships

Partners and Sponsors

This series is presented at institutions across Southern California by Getty with the support of the following partners:

Lead Partners

Alicia Miñana & Rob Lovelace
Getty Patron Program

Principal Partners

Eva & Ming Hsieh

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