Bathsheba Grossman — 'Sculpting Geometry'

She's a California-based artist exploring the boundary between art and mathematics.

She states on her website, "I'm a digital sculptor, combining prototyping technology with metal crafting skills to create abstract geometries in space. My work explores order in 3D."

Originally trained as a mathematician (B.A. from Yale), she did post-graduate work in sculpture (M.F.A. from Penn), then worked for years as, among other things, a programmer for a number of mathematicians, physicists, and biologists; an adjunct professor of computer graphics and interactive multimedia at Pratt Institute; a laboratory assistant at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; and a database programmer.

Now she's emerged with a collection of intricate, thought-provoking sculptures, puzzles and designs created by laser etching.

Does the name Escher come to mind as you look at her work?

'Cause it does for me.

She considers her works to be "3D meditations."

How do you spell "MacArthur Fellowship?"

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