EXHIBITION

Observations from the Unknown

Owen Gildersleeve has created a body of nine original artworks as part of a special solo exhibition ‘Observations from the Unknown’, taking place July 17th – August 31st at the ARGONAUT Gallery in San Fransisco.

To celebrate groundbreaking celestial data gathered by NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft over the past nine years, the seemingly abstract pieces tell the tale of nine newly discovered exoplanets that orbit stars outside of our own solar system.

Owen has taken details such as the orbital periods, mass, radius and age and visualised these using a series of  forms featuring concentric rings, starbursts and swirls. He has brought the pieces to life using hand-crafted layers of physical papercuttings and experimental materials, that play with scale and hierarchy, simultaneously communicating data from Kepler’s mission whilst abstractly spelling out the names of each planet and star system featured.

The artwork is formed from the data gathered by Nasa about the planet and the whole artwork spells out 16b 

– Owen Gildersleeve

Alongside his papercut creations Owen will also be showing a selection of new large-scale artworks, pushing his handcrafted layered style into exciting new territories. He will also be holding a selection of workshops in the gallery during the course of the show, allowing visitors the chance to try out papercutting for themselves.

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