Consciousness Exhibition Closing Event with Andrew Parker
Sage Culture is thrilled to announce that Andrew Parker, CEO of Lifescaped and Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, is in Los Angeles and will join us at Sage Culture to celebrate the closing of the "Consciousness" exhibition.
Experience the unique Pure Structural Colour® and learn about the advanced science behind it at Sage Culture gallery on February 18th, from 3 pm to 6 pm. To confirm your presence, please email the gallery at info@sageculture.com.
Professor Parker is a scientist and artist who has been, over the past 25 years, dedicating his life to researching photonic structures and eyes: evolution, development, and biomimetics. His main field of study is the diversity and evolution of structural color in nature.
"Consciousness" presents Professor Parker's outstanding achievements, showcasing cutting-edge technology representing the ultimate intersection between art and science. For this exhibition, the concept was expanded through a visual conversation with seven guest artists: Kustaa Saksi, Álvaro Negro, Orlanda Broom, Filipa Tojal, Michal Fargo, Sasha Ferré, and Gwen Hardie.
Andrew Parker began his career as an artist and a scientist, two callings he united through his fascination with, and heightened sense of, color. As a PhD student in the 1990s, he examined tiny marine animals famous for their nocturnal bioluminescent light displays. Working at the Los Angeles County Museum, Andrew discovered that some of these animals exhibited another type of light display – iridescence, or structural color. From tiny body parts, colorless surfaces containing microscopic structures reflected mesmerizing blues and greens. And that architecture was new to biology.