Digital Art Pioneer Nancy Burson Collapses the Border Between Mysticism and Quantum Physics
ARTnews profiled digital-art pioneer Nancy Burson, 78, focusing on her “Quantum Entanglement” paintings—black canvases covered with white dots that appear to jitter and reveal color and depth when viewed through a phone camera. The works are presented in her solo exhibition “Light Matter” at Heft Gallery in New York, on view through May 2 (year not specified in the excerpt). Burson described the paintings as visual evidence of an “energy grid” she believes underlies the universe, created using a system she summarized as “Two up and two down.” The article also recounted her early career after moving to New York in 1968 and her pioneering 1980s composite portraits made with digital tools, facilitated through Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) and computer-graphics innovator Carl Machover.
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