BOOLEAN VALLEY

Boolean Valley—a collaborative project between potter Adam Silverman and architect Nader Tehrani—is a room-sized installation comprised of 400 cut, clay objects glazed in a colorful compound of cobalt, silicon, and carbide, that together form a topographic sculptural landscape. Tehrani, who uses ... Read more

Boolean Valley—a collaborative project between potter Adam Silverman and architect Nader Tehrani—is a room-sized installation comprised of 400 cut, clay objects glazed in a colorful compound of cobalt, silicon, and carbide, that together form a topographic sculptural landscape. Tehrani, who uses advanced software and parametric modeling to design some of the most innovative buildings of our time with his firm Office dA, has created a Boolean logic that forms a field or “valley” that is inhabited by Silverman’s striking ceramic objects. Named after the mathematician George Boole, a Boolean logic defines where objects intersect. Commissioned by the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California, with independent curator Julie Lazar, Boolean Valley is on view at the San Jose Museum of Art November 8, 2008, through January 11, 2009, and then travels to Montalvo Arts Center from February 1 through March 8, 2009. The exhibition travels to MOCA Pacific Design Center March 22 through July 5, 2009, in a site-specific installation organized by Brooke Hodge for the first exhibition in MOCA’s Craft and Computation series.