Dorthea Rockburne Philip Ording on Mathematics in Art, New York Studio School

Please consider making a gift to the Evening Lecture Series. Your donation will support the Series ongoing biweekly discussions of contemporary art and art history. Evening Lecture Series, Spring 2020 Season: Dorthea Rockburne Philip Ording The Magic of Math and Art, recorded on February 26, 2020. Philip Ording has a in mathematics from Columbia University and has been a member of the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College since 2014. Beginning in graduate school he served as a consultant to various New Yorkbased artists including Mary Ellen Carroll, Peter Coffin, Anthony McCall, and Richard Serra. His book, 99 Variations on a Proof (Princeton, 2019) is an exploration of and commentary on style in mathematical writing. Dorothea Rockburne (American, born Canada, 1932). Classical École des BeauxArts training, combined with four years in the early 1950s at the legendary Black Mountain College, including art classes with Franz Kl