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"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
​​Albert Einstein

     An important piece of New York art history involves many metropolitan area artists whose artwork focused on new scientific discoveries. These artists specialized in artistically illustrating the emerging science being uncovered by a wave of technologies newly available to research scientists since the 1940’s. These artists collaborated with scientists doing new research with the most advanced and latest scientific technologies. New discoveries led scientists to new realizations. The fabric of existence was being understood in entirely new ways.

     The phenomenon of Science Art has been one facet of the New York art scene since the 1960’s. It was the focus of the New York State Council on the Arts during 1965 when the Council sponsored a large regional Art-in-Science exhibition held at the Albany Institute of History and Art.

It was the Empire State’s version of the World’s Fair in Science Art. The scope of this historical event at Albany was far reaching and of great interest to others outside the New York region. It was written about by the art critic Robert Coates in the New Yorker Magazine in October 1965. My mother, Patricia Cleary Berlin had her artwork on display at this exhibit.

     My niece, Rachel Patricia Berlin, created a very special gift book that illustrates my mother’s artistic interest in Science Art, while employed as an Interior Designer at the Rockefeller University in New York City from 1963 to 1984.

     The Science Art gift book is the legacy that my mother will leave to her artistic compatriots. It contributes to the multi-faceted nature of the artistic exploration of scientific research, and will serve as a historical resource to those seeking a broader knowledge of the eclectic venue of Science Art.

“Attempting to render physical phenomena carefully, even artfully, can lead to scientific discovery.”

​Eric Heller,p.29 Supervision, A New View of Nature by Ivan Amato.

     In this gift book is the mention of the profound insight of Phillip Ritterbush, past Director of Education at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC., that there exists the spontaneous contribution of creative input from the subconscious mind of the artist in the artistic rendering of scientific subjects.

     Conventionally stated by Director Ritterbush in his own book, “The Art of Organic Forms”, he suggests: that each individual has an innate knowledge of the true nature of existence, that this knowledge is held deep within their subconscious, and that opportunities for the spontaneous expression of this knowledge allow it to be consciously considered as a factor in their personal reality.

Inner psychic realities, as well as psychological processes, manifest themselves in the forms of artistic expressions.

     My mother’s art work “Nerve Cells” was on display in Director Ritterbush’s own exhibit at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC., in 1968.

This perspective on subconscious processes can be explored on many different levels and in many different ways.  We each have personal experiences that refer us to this inner process at work in our own lives:  Intuitive realizations springing forth at unexpected moments that bring clarity to the causes and conditions influencing our personal reality.

     Another example would be important information brought to our attention serendipitously from an unknown source.  Or the realization that the more we know, the more we don’t know.

These experiences are clues that there is an interior genius that probes the mindscape of our environment, awaiting opportunities to express insight into the nature of existence.