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.