Olga Alexopoulou & Vanja Malloy on Quantum Color

The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago is a site for rigorous inquiry and exchange that encourages the examination of complex issues through the lens of art objects and artistic practice. Through strong community and scholarly partnerships, the Museum incorporates diverse ideas, identities, and experiences into its exhibitions and collections, academic initiatives, and public programming. The Smart first opened in 1974. Admission is always free.

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Artist Olga Alexopoulou and Smart Museum Dana Feitler Director Vanja Malloy discuss the history and future of color.

Artist Olga Alexopoulou and Smart Museum Dana Feitler Director Vanja Malloy discuss the history and future of color. Taking inspiration from the vibrant abstractions of Alma Thomas, the program traces color as both material and meaning, from historical uses in art and science to the most cutting-edge advancements in pigment today. Alexopoulou and Malloy explore how artists and scientists shape one another’s work, and how new collaborations can expand the possibilities of both.

Free; RSVP encouraged. Please note this program will take place in the Education Study Room located within the museum galleries.

Olga Alexopoulou is a painter whose work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, from Tokyo to New York. Born in Athens, she studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. In 2018, in collaboration with a team of scientists at Berkeley Lab in California, she developed a new pigment called Quantum Blue. She is now the CEO of Quantum Light, the world’s only company that specializes in quantum pigments.

Vanja Malloy is Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum of Art whose work centers interdisciplinary inquiry, bringing artists, scholars, and publics into dialogue around urgent questions in art and society.

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