2023 EXHIBITION--LARRY HOLBROOK

Is it Art?   Mathematical art before AI is the focus of the Michigan Institute for Contemporary Art (MICA Gallery)’s November art exhibition: Art Meets MathFrom November 4th, 2023 to January 7th, 2024 with a special reception to be held Sunday, November 12, 2023, 2-5 p.m. We’ll be exhibiting art from Lawrence French Holbrook, who passed away in 2002, and his digital art was created largely between 1994 and 2002 after his retirement as Director of the Michigan Department of Transportation Materials and Technology Research Laboratory. His art predated any Artificial Intelligence and most digital art enhancement software. As a mathematician and statistician, he wrote his own mathematical formulas to create and develop his unique art. The results are stunning, vibrant and captivating, as he purposely moved towards a more “painterly” effect. He used his computer as a tool to accomplish his artistic product much as a painter uses a paintbrush and canvas to express their ideas.