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Adam Silverman and Nader Tehrani Boolean Valley, 2008 Cast, altered and glazed clay Concept illustration courtesy the Artists. Commissioned by Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, as part of its 2009 initiative Agency: The Work of Artists.
A collaboration between artist Adam Silverman and MIT Architecture Professor Nader Tehrani, Boolean Valley (2008) is a room-sized installation comprising 400 clay objects glazed in a colorful compound of cobalt blue and black, each with silicon carbide added. Together they form a sloping, sculptural landscape derived from the principle of “Boolean logic,” which calibrates the geometry of intersecting objects. Cast from a single mold, each clay vessel is intersected with a variable cut, sliced in two and redistributed over the floor to produce the topography of the landscape.
Boolean Valley is a co-presentation of the San Jose Museum of Art and Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga. The installation was commissioned by Montalvo as a part of its 2009 curated arts initiative, AGENCY: The Work of Artists.