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Owen Schuh
Unfolding A Cube
2018

About the Item

OWEN SCHUH (American, b.1982 in Stevens Point, WI. Lives and works in Vermont, VT) Owen Schuh draws his inspiration from mathematical rules, algorithms and complex organic systems. In particular, he is fascinated by simple sets of well-defined rules that generate unexpectedly intricate and nuanced structures. His work is painstakingly created by hand, using at most the aid of a pocket calculator. In 2015 Schuh participated in a major collaboration with the mathematician Satyan Devadoss. This resulted in the exhibit The Cartography of Tree Space at Satellite Berlin (2015) and the co-authoring and publication of an article “Cartography of Treespace” in Leonardo Journal (2017). In 2018, Schuh work was included in the exhibition, Das Origami-Prinzip in der Kunst, 24 February - 3 June 2018, Marta Herford Museum, Germany. Owen Schuh, Unfolding A Cube, is a visual investigation of different methods and orders for unfolding a simple form, the cube: 3 dimensions, 6 facets, 8 vertices and 12 edges become one surface of varying configurations. These eleven ‘nets’ of a cube are typically represented in Tetris-like diagrams in geometry. However, Schuh's paintings and drawings use these ‘nets’ as a starting point to visually explore the interrelatedness and extra-linguistic meaning of all possible futures, together. Unfolding a Cube, is the whole thing, all 7 cuts layered on top of each other. The colored nodes represent the different cut configurations and the lines indicate which configurations are connected to each other via the process of adding or subtracting a cut. The colors and size of the lines/circles indicate the layer. Dürer’s conjecture describes that a convex three-dimensional figure, cut along its edges and unfolded, can be flattened without overlapping upon itself. A simple thing gets simpler, no plot-twists. Fascinatingly, seven cuts from form to flat manifest unexpectedly elaborate shared and divergent fates, and illuminating them gets exponentially more complicated, especially once you start distinguishing between right and left hand, and coloring the faces of the cube, etc. Much as Sol Lewitt’s Incomplete Open Cubes demonstrates, the iterative exploration of these ‘unfoldings’ can lead us to even further considerations, where we are able to creatively study and marvel at not only the elegant numerations, but also the relationships between each of the possibilities. All futures witnessed simultaneously, time compressed and experience expanded. Unending complexity birthed from simple methods and straightforward actions. Schuh's work seeks to illuminate the entwining relations between embodied mind, mathematics, and the physical world. His artwork is structured by mathematical functions and iterations, which though relatively simple in nature yield outcomes of surprising organic complexity. In each piece Schuh strives to manifest phenomena unique to the interaction between the physical medium and the logical structure.

Creator:
Owen Schuh (1982, American)
Creation Year:
2018
Dimensions:
Height: 70.8 in (179.84 cm)Width: 106.3 in (270.01 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Medium:
Oil,Panel,Graphite
Movement & Style:
Abstract Geometric
Period:
2010-
Condition:
The work is in 3 panels.
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU104413873032

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