Clifford Singer
"Smarandacheian Composition"
Digital Image 16" x 20", 2001-2005
Original Artwork
Smarandacheian Composition, 2001Ó, Acrylic on Plexiglas, 25 x 37 inches
"Geometrical Clouds"
Digital Image 16" x 20", 1978-2005
Original Artwork
Geometrical Clouds, 1978 Ó, Acrylic on Canvas, 42 x 84 inches
Clifford Singer holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree from The City College of New York. He has taught both art and mathematics. He has worked in a variety of media and has had several solo exhibitions of his work.
"Geometrical Clouds is a series I had created from 1975 to 1978 and then re-fabricated wall constructions an exhibition in 1996. The works were basically created in four phases, 1. welded cold rolled carbon steel with enamel 1975-1976, 2. Acrylic on clear Plexiglas 1977, 3. Gouache on Acrylic on Canvas 1977-1978, and 4. Acrylic on Canvas 1978. The works encompassed my investigations into fragments of hyper spatial constructive geometric images both visible and invisible. The steel constructions dealt with Man Ray’s concept of coloring clouds different colors, La Fortune 1938/41 (mine are geometrical clouds) and David Smith’s concept of creating a sculpture and putting them on the landscape against the sky. The Acrylic on clear Plexiglas were painted as white lines on clear Plexiglas standing away from the wall by one inch and casting an actual shadow of the geometrical cloud to the wall. The invisibility or ‘invisible paintings’ were atmospheric, and as I am quoted as stating ‘disintegrating’, whereby painting the lines by hand with merging transparent gouache on a light blue acrylic field and having the lighting dimmed slightly in a gallery setting the lines disappear or vanish. There are numerous other similar Geometrical Cloud paintings from this period that are slightly sharper in contrast with line to field and within the hyper spatial geometric mode are ‘corpuscular’ in theory and by nature of the picture plane. This created quite a lot of controversy by viewers who visited my studio in 1977. The fourth phase of my work in 1978 was as the Geometrical Cloud in this exhibit with hard edge painting technique.
Smarandache Notions Journal Vol. 13, No. 1-2-3, Spring 2002, University of College Cork, and American Research Press requested that I do the front cover of the Journal after publishing they accepted my paper for the Journal, which I entitled, Engineering A Visual Field, pages 13-15. It was the intent by painting the Smarandacheian Composition to represent geometric concepts of Florentin Smarandache’s categories, that a paradoxist Smarandache geometry combines Euclidean, hyperbolic, and elliptical geometry into one space along with other non-Euclidean behaviors of lines that would seem to require a discrete space. A class of continuous spaces is presented here together with specific examples that exhibit almost all these phenomena and suggest the prospect of a continuous paradoxist geometry.
I now live in Las Vegas, Nevada, teaching mathematics and working on my artworks. "
Cliff's works may be viewed at: Truly Virtual Web Art Museum, Math Marries Art, a virtual exhibition by Clifford Singer, Copyright 2000, http://www.lastplace.com/EXHIBITS/VIPsuite/CSinger/index.htmCliff may be reached by e-mail at CliffordhS@aol.com
