The mathematician series is based on photographic portraits from well-known mathematicians of the 1900s’. My early background in physics and mathematics gave me the opportunity to learn about the amazing stories and personalities of many of these people that a large majority outside of the field have not heard about. My hope with this series was to pay homage to these brilliant people that have worked in the shadows of popular culture but are responsible for so many important technologies and innovations that we take for granted today. As Newton once wrote, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
This is also the first series for my new “fused encaustic” technique which is also built on my years of experience of working with hand cast crayons. In this work, I try to blur the lines of painting and sculpture, realism and abstraction, color and tone, to create a series that will draw you into the speckled colored surface of the work while pushing you away to capture the gaze of the figure.
I hope you will enjoy this new series and take some time to learn a bit about each of the mathematicians through the writing of Lisa Alberico
