George W. Hart, Ph.D.
Sculptor
http://www.georgehart.com
3 Stony Rd. Stony Brook NY 11790
(631) 896-0972
As a sculptor of constructive geometric forms, my work deals with patterns and relationships derived from classical ideals of balance and symmetry. Mathematical yet organic, these abstract forms invite the viewer to partake of the geometric aesthetic.
Public Works
·183 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stata Center, Cambridge, MA
·183 London Knowledge Lab, University of London, UK
·183 University of California at Berkeley, Computer Science Building, Berkeley, CA
·183 Stony Brook University, Computer Science Building, Stony Brook, NY
·183 Princeton University, Mathematics Dept., Fine Hall, Princeton, NJ
·183 State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY
·183 Northport Public Library, Northport, NY
·183 Long Island Museum of Science and Technology, Kings Park, NY
·183 Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science, New Hyde Park, NY
Awards and Honors
·183 Artist in Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
·183 New York State Council for the Arts Individual Artists Award.
Recent Group Shows
·183 2007 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
·183 2007 Tezas A&M University, College Station, TX
·183 2007 CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
·183 2007 Concordia University, Montreal, QB
·183 2007 Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
·183 2007 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
·183 2007 Joint MAA/AMS meeting Art Exhibit, Now Orleans, LA
·183 2006 Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
·183 2006 Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
·183 2006 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
·183 2006 Fete de la Science, Nancy, France
·183 2006 Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
·183 2006 Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, NV
·183 2006 Institute of Education, University of London, London, UK
·183 2006 Joint MAA/AMS meeting Art Exhibit, San Antonio, TX
·183 2006 Art League of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY
·183 2005 Mathematiques & Art Exposition, L'Institut Henri Poincare, Paris
·183 2005 St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
·183 2005 University of Colorado at Boulder, CO
·183 2005 Joint MAA/AMS meeting Art Exhibit, Atlanta GA
·183 2004 Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
·183 2004 Miami University, Oxford, OH
·183 2004 DePaul University, Chicago, IL
·183 2004 Joint Mathematics Conference Art Exhibit, Phoenix, AZ
·183 2003 Bridges/ISAMA Exhibit, Granada, Spain
·183 2003 Northport Museum, Northport, NY
·183 2002 Towson College, MD
·183 2002 Art-trium, Melville, NY
·183 2002 Vorpal Gallery, Soho, New York City, NY
·183 2001 Steinway Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
·183 2001 Northport Museum, Northport, NY
·183 2001 Math and Art 2001, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield , MA
·183 2000 The Cooper Union, New York, NY
·183 2000 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
·183 2000 Colloquium on Math and Arts Exhibition, Maubeuge, France
·183 2000 University of Washington, MOSAIC conference art display, Seattle, WA
·183 2000 International Society of Art, Math, and Architecture, Exhibition at SUNY Albany, NY
·183 2000 Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum, Huntington, NY
·183 2000 Fayetteville Arts Council, Fayetteville, NC
·183 1999 b.j. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY
·183 1999 Mather Hospital Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show, Port Jefferson, NY
·183 1999 Clayton Liberatore Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
·183 1999 Soundview Art Gallery, Port Jefferson, NY
·183 1998 10th Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibit at Chelsea Center, East Norwich, NY
·183 1998 Huntington Station Arts, Huntington, NY
·183 1998 SOMA Gallery, Northport, NY
·183 1998 Math and Art 1998 Exhibition, University of California at Berkeley, CA
·183 1998 Bridges Exhibition, Southwestern College, Winfield, KS
·183 1997 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
·183 1997 Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport, NY
·183 1997 Math and Art 1997 Exhibition, State University of New York at Albany, NY
Bibliography
·183 “Symmetric Sculpture,” Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, to appear, 2007.
·183 “Sculpture Puzzles,” Proceedings of London Bridges, London, 2006
·183 "Mathematical Connections in Art", Math Horizons, February, 2006
·183 "The Geometric Aesthetic," in The Visual Mind 2, Michele Emmer (ed.), MIT Press, 2005.
·183 "Creating a Mathematical Museum on your Desk", Mathematical Intelligencer, 2005.
·183 "Orderly Tangles Revisited", Proc. Bridges 2005: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, Banff, 2005.
·183 "Spaghetti Code: A Sculpture Barnraising", Proc. Art+Math=X, U. Colorado, Boulder, 2005.
·183 "A Salamander Sculpture Barn Raising", in Visual Mathematics 7, no. 1, 2004.
·183 "A Reconstructible Geometric Sculpture", Proceedings of ISAMA CTI 2004, DePaul Univ.
·183 "Sculpture with Symmetrically Arranged Planar Components," Bridges/ISAMA, 2003.
·183 "Mathematics Takes Shape," Math Horizons, April 2003.
·183 "Solid-Segment Sculptures, "Mathematics and Art, Claude Brute ed., Springer-Verlag, 2002.
·183 "A Color-Matching Dissection of the Rhombic Enneacontahedron", in Symmetry, 2000.
·183 "In the Palm of Leonardo's Hand," Nexus Network Journal, 2002.
·183 "Loopy," Humanistic Mathematics, June 2002.
·183 Zome Geometry (with Henri Picciotto) Key Curriculum Press, 2001.
·183 "Rapid Prototyping of Geometric Models," 13th Canadian Conf. on Comp. Geom., U. Waterloo, 2001.
·183 "Symmetrohedra" (with Craig Kaplan) Proceedings of Bridges 2001.
·183 "Blending Polyhedra with Overlays" (with Douglas Zongker) Proceedings Bridges 2001.
·183 "Loopy," Humanistic Mathematics, June, 2002.
·183 "Computational Geometry for Sculpture," ACM Conf. on Computational Geometry, Tufts University, 2001.
·183 "Solid-Segment Sculptures," Proc. Colloq. on Math and Arts, Maubeuge, France, Sept. 2000.
·183 "Sculpture based on Propellorized Polyhedra," in Proceedings of MOSAIC 2000, Seattle, August 2000
·183 "Millennium Bookball," Proceedings of Bridges 2000: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science, Southwestern College, Kansas, July 2000, and Visual Mathematics 2(3).
·183 "Reticulated Geodesic Constructions," Computers and Graphics 24(6), 2000.
·183 "Zonohedrification," The Mathematica Journal, vol. 7 no.3, 1999.
·183 "Icosahedral Constructions," Proceedings of Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science, Southwestern College, Kansas, July 1998.
·183 "Zonish Polyhedra," Proc. of Mathematics and Design '98, San Sebastian, Spain, June, 1998.
Education
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1987
M.A. Indiana University, Linguistics, August 1979
B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mathematics, January 1977
Recent Lectures and Public Appearances
·183 Towson University, Towson, MD, December 2006
·183 Princeton University, NJ, November, 2006
·183 Albion College, Albion, MI, October, 2006
·183 State University of New York at Oswego, NY, August 2006
·183 University of London, UK, August 2006
·183 International Puzzle Party, Boston, July 2006
·183 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, July 2006
·183 St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, NJ, June 2006
·183 Polytechnic University, New York, NY, April 2006
·183 Fermilab, Batavia, IL, April 2006
·183 Gathering for Gardner, Atlanta, GA, April 2006
·183 University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, April 2006
·183 University of Rome, Rome, Italy, March 2006
·183 Mathematica e Cultura 2006, Venice, Italy, March 2006
·183 Gathering for Gardner, Atlanta, GA, March 2006
·183 Dowling College, Oakdale, NY, February 2006
·183 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, January 2006
·183 Noguchi Museum, New York City, November 2005
·183 Banff International Center for the Arts, Alberta, August 2005
·183 Reed College, Portland OR, June 2005
·183 International Conference on Science and Art, Athens, Greece, June 2005
·183 University of Colorado at Boulder, June 2005
·183 Western Washington University, April 2005
·183 Long Island University, C. W. Post, NY, February 2005
·183 Union College, Schenectady NY, January 2005
·183 Yale University, New Haven, CT, December 2004
·183 Goudreau Museum, New Hyde Park, NY, November 2004
·183 University of Miami in Ohio, October 2004
·183 Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2004
·183 Moravian College, Bethelehem, PA, April, 2004.
·183 Gathering for Gardner, Atlanta, GA, April 2004.
·183 University of Houston, TX, February 2004.
·183 Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, October/November 2003.
·183 MathCamp, Tacoma, WA, August, 2003.
·183 MathFest, Boulder, CO, July 2003.
·183 Bridges/ISAMA, Granada, Spain, July 2003.
·183 Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, June, 2003.
·183 University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO, July 2002.
·183 New Jersey Institute of Technology, March, 2002.
·183 Stony Brook University Distinguished Lecture, March, 2002.
·183 Colby College, Waterville, ME, July 2001.
·183 Southwestern College, Winfield, KS, July 2001.
·183 American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2001.
·183 10th Annual Workshop on Computational Geometry, Stony Brook, 2000.
·183 University of Waterloo, Ontario, October 2000.
·183 State University of New York at Canton, September 2000.
·183 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, July 2000.
·183 State University of New York at Stony Brook, April 2000.
·183 University of California at Berkeley, 1999 and 1998.
·183 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, November 1998.
·183 New York Academy of Sciences, October 1998.
·183 Rhode Island College, Providence, RI , 1998
·183 MAA Mathfest, Atlanta GA, August 1997.
·183 Art and Math Conference, State University of New York at Albany, June 1997.