Rob
Aikey
dallas 214 902 8885
praha (420) 723 899 368
Voertman’s Annual Arts
Competition 1988,
Denton TX. Honorable Mention
Group Show, 2800 Commerce Gallery, Dallas TX. 1993
Various Group Shows, Tromp L’oeil Gallery, Dallas
TX. 1992-1994
Texas Area Artists, Voyager Trading, Dallas TX. 2000-2002
Sambuca Jazz Cafe, Old and New Works, Addison TX. Summer 2002
Gallerie Brik, Windows to My Soul, Prague, Czech Republic. Summer 2003
| Carol Sanderson, Dana Point, CA. | Michaela Horakova, Prague, Czech Republic |
| Greg Close, Dallas, TX. | Ann Michele Bowlin, Dallas, TX. |
| Greg
Jenkins, Dallas, TX. |
Heidi and Lee Adams, Austin, TX. |
| Jane Murphy, Dallas, TX. | Barry Wells, Dallas, TX. |
| Chad
Schultz, San
Antonio, TX. |
Lucie Mlejnkova, Prague, Czech Republic |
| Helen and Neil Hemphill, Memphis TN. | Karl Simpson, Prague, Czech Republic |
| Sarah Hesler, Dallas, TX. | Jeremy Hurewitz, Prague, Czech Republic |
| Holly Morgan, Dallas, TX. | Serena
Ehrlich, Dallas, TX. |
| Laura Keefner, Dallas, TX. | Dan Besse, Boston, MA. |
Dmagazine, Dallas, TX. Jefferson Properties, Dallas, TX.
Thoughts
on Chaos, effects on my ART:
Change, flux,
and movement, can we create the synergy?
Change, in my opinion is related to self organization, that is the synergy of a
system that presently the analytical sciences do not adequately master. We have
no proven means of measuring synergy in our social systems, yet synergy
contributes to the organization and survival of our social systems by
introducing measured change. Is art the synergy? Measurable? No.
But changing? Yes. Constantly. Further, I believe that a dynamical
system consists of an abstract phase space or state space, whose coordinates
describe the dynamical state at any instant. Dynamical rules specify the immediate future trend of all state variables, given only the
present values of those same state variables.
Dynamical systems, therefore are "deterministic" if there is a unique
consequent to every state, and espcially if
there is more than one consequent chosen from some probability distribution.
i.e. the "perfect" coin toss has two consequents with equal probability for
each initial state. It should be noted that most of the nonlinear sciences
deal with deterministic
systems.
If chaos begins with logic, the
formalization of a mathematical equation,then
art
too, begins with logic. Formalize the rules of logic into a mathematical
formula, plot the result, and you will have created an order, a creation in
itself. Add to this, self-similar
design, the element of human consciousness, and you will have created art, art
that changes the viewer, art that changes the creator.
Effects on my art: I have been interested in Chaos Theory since the mid 1980’s. I feel that my constant meanderings and experimentations in thought related to Chaos, has had a significant impact on my art, if not in a stylistic manner, at the very least philosophically. I have always maintained a duality in my life, one of order and one in which I allow chance to guide my actions. I believe creating art has a way of forcing me to work with order: the canvas, brushes, colour, etc, but chance is ultimately what guides me in the composition, the choice of colour, and the final result. Like any dynamical system, I take a systematic approach to the creation of the stretcher, the stretching of the canvas, and the plotting of anticipated results (the sketch), but when it is finished, the element of human consciousness is what has taken over. That is the element that cannot be plotted, or driven by order, that is the element of Chance.