BFA Studio Art Alumni, Kellan Shanahan (’13) is being featured in an art exhibit at Almost Holden Collective Gallery in Santa Monica (a gallery co-founded by Chapman Alumni Sayer Kanakriyeh). The show will start on Friday, October 4, 2013 and continue through Friday, October 18, 2013 (Reception on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.).

About the Exhibit:

A Church Not Made By Hands 

An Infinite universe does not work in the same ways as a finite one. The concepts of something and nothing imply that things have a beginning and an end, in both space in time. That is precisely the opposite of what infinite means.

These works represent an investigation into the infinite. Inspired by the mysticism of geometry and transfinite mathematics, as well as the imagery of cosmology and theoretical physics, the works express a striking similarity in the form of things far beyond our immediate experience, in both the very large and the very small. These patterns in reality are deeply mysterious and intoxicating to the human mind, but what I find the most profound is that they are also aesthetically beautiful. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence. Beauty, it seems, is a fundamental characteristic of reality.

We entangle ourselves in mystery only when we try to dig beneath our ordinary experience in order to uncover foundations for what needs no such foundations. This could likely explain the entire endeavor of finding a brute origin of reality, be it religious, scientific, or philosophical. The question of why there is something rather than nothing is irrelevant. In an infinite universe, one substantiates the other. There is no beginning or end to reality, just as there is no bottom or top.