Also on view is a related series of Ms. Fernández's hand - made pulp prints, perforated with patterns that evoke constellations, superimposed on large -
scale images of the sky.
Not exact matches
To conduct the new study, the Hawaiian team, led by astronomer Istvan Szapudi, combined two large -
scale observations
of the cosmos that already had been completed: the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which represents the last, dying embers
of the big bang, and the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey, which comprises
images of millions
of galaxies.
The
images are not to
scale - the lensed
image appears to be many times larger in the
sky than the actual size
of the source.
The astronomers began their quest by using the VLBA to make very high resolution
images of more than 1,200 galaxies, previously identified by large -
scale sky surveys done with infrared and radio telescopes.
Years
of careful measurement
of photographic
images of the
sky led Henrietta Leavitt to a discovery that is fundamental to how astronomers measure the
scale of the Universe.
Rail: You mean the few versions
of «Ballad
of Marie Sanders» first at Smith College Museum [1990], at the Jewish Museum [1993], and then at Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden [1998], particularly the installation
of «Minerva,
Sky Goddess, Madrid» [1991] where you printed
images in all
scales and sizes directly on the terrace, floor, and walls
of the Circulo de Bellas Artes?
Vija Celmins: Recent Prints features a series
of five night
sky images that share the same plate and sheet size alongside artist's most ambitiously - scaled print to date, Untitled (Large Night Sk
sky images that share the same plate and sheet size alongside artist's most ambitiously -
scaled print to date, Untitled (Large Night
SkySky).
Barbara Takenaga has created a new work
of an unprecedented
scale for a 100 foot wall in the Hunter Center lobby at MASS MoCA.The mural features a new
image from her series, Nebraska Paintings, a body
of work that moves closer to the representational imagery only implied in earlier pieces, but which captures the wide open spaces and big
sky of the artist's native state.