PARADOX TRAVELING ART
PARADOX TRAVELING ART
About
Paradox Artist and Workshops Fund.
Fund under the fiscal sponsorship of Paso del Norte Community Foundation to fundraise to take Paradox Traveling Art bus for free to non-profit organizations, schools, and communities with limited or no access to art spaces.
About Paradox Traveling Art.
Paradox Traveling Art is a mobile art installation created by El Paso/Juarez artist Laura Turón. This art piece is also presented as the first mobile art gallery in El Paso, housed within a converted school bus. The artistic concept portrays a mobile art gallery as an art piece itself, as one that travels and moves beyond the gallery’s walls. The project features mobile murals and art installations
Mission.
To provide a series of art workshops, exhibitions, and lectures throughout the region and nearby areas. With a special focus on delivering: art through a mobile platform to areas that have limited or no access to art spaces; opportunities for artists to encourage and promote the creative arts; art workshops and lectures that promote creative expression and critical thinking.
PARADOX ARTIST AND WORKSHOPS FUND
Fund under the fiscal sponsorship of Paso del Norte Community Foundation to fundraise to take Paradox Traveling Art bus for free to non-profit organizations, schools, and communities with limited or no access to art spaces.
Current Exhibition
The current exhibit titled Tribute 23, features a community art installation in remembrance and honor of the victims of the El Paso shooting that happened on August 3rd, 2019, where visitors can write a message of hope or express their emotions and feelings directly on the walls of the exhibit with the purpose of healing through art.
Previous Exhibitions
Inspired by the concept of love and heart conversation candies, through this community art installation, participants interacted with the piece by writing messages on heart stickers to declare their love to one another, engage with one another by responding to existing notes pasted by previous visitors, and have fun being part of the art installation by pasting their heart stickers anywhere inside the bus.
Design on the exterior of the bus has the SVL algorithm by the EM Lab to create an optical illusion pattern with the word “AMOR” hidden.
Laura Turón partnered up with the EM Lab at the University of Texas-El Paso to develop new ways to combine science and art to present complex concepts visually. Together they will collaborate to create a series of art installations focusing on visual representations of the EM Lab technologies and art concepts by Mrs. Turon. These will be installed inside Paradox Traveling Art bus-but also adaptable to be able to be installed in other galleries-and presented in a series of traveling exhibitions to inspire, educate, and motivate visitors.
The mission of the EM Lab at the University of Texas at El Paso is to develop revolutionary technologies in circuits and electromagnetics that are enabled by 3D printing. All of their research is extremely high-risk/high-payoff and proposes technologies that are radically different than today. To accomplish this, they have recruited a team of very special Ph.D. students who are brave enough to take on this type of research and who have minds that are open to literally bending the current laws of physics. They have recently developed an algorithm to bend, twist, and otherwise spatially vary periodic structures without deforming the size and shape of the tiles that make up the periodic structures, as this would destroy the electromagnetic properties. This algorithm has enabled the EM Lab group to achieve many accomplishments for which they have been given multiple awards and even patents. The patterns generated by this algorithm are beautiful in appearance and very similar to some of the art pieces Laura has created in the past.
The concept of the art installations features the interior of a photonic crystal done with the Spatially Variant Lattice algorithm. This piece was a collaboration with the EM Lab.
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