After two years of intensive research and development in material applications and aesthetic possibilities, Whitney Wolf presently offers to the art world and public-at-large examples of his visual contemplations of quantum physics. "Strings, Waves and Visual Arbitration" will open on May 23 and can be viewed at the New York Arcade on the corner of New York and Fairbanks Avenue in Winter Park, 10-4 daily, 12-4 Sundays. A reception for patrons and friends will be held on the evening of May 22.

Whitney's extensive readings in the field of post-new physics have inspired him to render his speculations about the nature of the universe and quantum reality on canvas and in sculptural form. With multi-geometric layering, gridwork and shifting perspective, Whitney's canvasses absorb the viewer as if he or she were truly being swallowed by black holes. A distinction between macro and micro is impossible to decipher, for multiple time and space dimensions increase one's sense of non-locality or being in outer space. The laser-like line quality in these paintings create luminous divisions between dimensions.

Incorporating the techniques of bronze-casting and assemblage, Whitney produces three-dimensional models with nth-dimensional capacity. With the aid of either white light or laser beam interference, Whitney's works of lexan and steel emit plasmic effects. The works in bronze repeat the painterly theme of shifting perspective from a human scale, combining figures and topologies with gridwork across curved space.

A graduate of programs in philosophy and the visual arts, Whitney extended his sculptural expertise through a fellowship with Duane Hanson. As both a teacher of classical realism and bronze-casting at Maitland Art Center and as an upper-division instructor in studio art at Trinity Preparatory, Whitney expresses a strong commitment to education and hopes that his artistic speculations into the world of physics will inspire others to wonder, to imagine how to visualize the mysteries of mind and the universe.

For more information on the artist and exhibit, please leave a message with Maitland Art Center at (305)645-2181.