Olga Alexopoulou & Vanja Malloy on Quantum 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.

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Olga Alexopoulou is an artist whose pioneering work bridges art and nanoscience, including the development of a quantum blue pigment in UChicago President Paul Alivisatos’s lab at UC Berkeley and her current work launching Quantum Light, a company advancing next-generation 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.

Alma Thomas, Grassy Melodic Chant, 1976, acrylic on canvas, 46 x 36 in. (116.8 x 91.5 cm), SmithsonianAmerican Art Museum, Bequest of the artist, 1980.36.5

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