Dorthea Rockburne & Philip Ording on Mathematics in Art | New York Studio School

Please consider making a gift to the Evening Lecture Series. Your donation will support the Series ongoing bi-weekly discussions of contemporary art and art history. Evening Lecture Series, Spring 2020 Season: Dorthea Rockburne & Philip Ording “The Magic of Math and Art,“ recorded on February 26, 2020. Philip Ording has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University and has been a member of the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College since 2014. Beginning in graduate school he served as a consultant to various New York-based artists including Mary Ellen Carroll, Peter Coffin, Anthony McCall, and Richard Serra. His book, 99 Variations on a Proof (Princeton, 2019) is an exploration of and commentary on style in mathematical writing. Dorothea Rockburne (American, born Canada, 1932). Classical École des Beaux-Arts training, combined with four years in the early 1950s at the legendary Black Mountain College, including art classes with Franz Kl