Curators:

Dr. Lisa Randall, Physicist Lia Halloran, Artist

Measure for Measure is an exploration of the concept of scale through contemporary art expression. Dr. Randall and Lia Halloran's curatorial vision explains how the concept of scale plays in important role both in understanding the makeup of the universe and in how we perceive it. We find very different elements and laws of nature when we study objects on small and large scales. Objects can repeat themselves at different sizes or entirely new worlds can open at different lengths. In science, we find very different elements and laws of natur when we study objects on large and small scales. In art we explore the experience and perceptions of size that we can see and make tangible both physically and visually.

Conceptual investigations of size begin with things we see around us that relate to the human body in visual distances and then explode outward to the vast extent of the universe and inward to the microscopic at sometimes abstracted and challenging to conceive levels. Although the range between these two boundaries is conceptually dramatic, artists have many ways to show the relationship, consistency and parallels in structure and form that are worlds away in size. Our relationship to the scale of things can make us question and perceive the world in new and various ways. Recognizable objects and scales in architecture and nature get reinterpreted and reinvigorated in our thoughts and perceptions when viewed from a different vantage point or shift in scale.

The exhibit aims to show how we reinvigorate our thoughts and expand our perceptions when recognizable objects and spaces in architecture and nature are viewed in from different vantage points or are shifted in scale.