Artist Tony Robbin Explores Geometry and the Fourth Dimension in New AAAS Show

Tony Robbin an acclaimed artist and a geometry enthusiast, says that the culture of art and the culture of math are one and the same. "Everyone is working on the same problem," he explains. "Everyone is trying to understand space in the same way." After all, he has been studying geometry and working on the depiction of space in the fourth-dimension in his paintings and sculptures for more than 30 years.

Robbin's latest work is related to four-dimensional topology, which examines how two-dimensional surfaces move in four-dimensional space to become knotted. On a canvas, Robbin demonstrates this in the interweaving fields of various geometric shapes—cube octahedra, dodecahedra, and quasicrystal tessellations—in bold, vibrant colors. For the viewer, this creates the experience of seeing multiple objects in the same place at the same time.

From 4 April to 16 June, Robbin will display his latest work in a public exhibit in the AAAS gallery at 12th and H Streets, NW, in Washington, D.C. This show, which comprises seven paintings, five digital prints, and five instructional posters that show how art is related to mathematics, is Robbin's first solo exhibition since 1992. The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

At the show's opening reception, on 5 April from 5-7 p.m., Robbin will be signing copies of his latest book, Shadows of Reality, The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought, which investigates different models of the fourth dimension and how these were applied in art and physics.

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