Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Steven Breaux to have solo exhibit and give an Artist Talk this fall.

This fall, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Steve Breaux’s work will be featured at a solo exhibit at the Acadiana Center for the Arts.  The exhibit titles Waking Space will run from October 14 – December 16, 2017 at the ACA.  In addition, he will give an ArtistTalk at the Hilliard University Art Museum on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 • 6 - 8pm.  Professor Breaux’s talk is titled Waking Space: The Emerging Art Object, Algorithmic Art, and Quantum Theory.  Professor Steven Breaux will speak about the transitional space between the idea and its materialization. Where does one end and the other begin? What is the “nature” of the transitional area? Paintings are physical objects and the end result of ideas, concepts, and belief systems. How is a digital image, as the end result of a series of algorithms, different than a physical painting? What is the relationship of perception and matter to the process of artistic creation? These questions have led him to relate art processes to certain experiments and concepts of quantum theory through artistic experimentation.

Professor Steven Breaux has taught at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette since 1996 teaching Art and the Computer, Drawing, and Design. Currently he teaches Advanced Drawing. Breaux received an MFA from Florida State University in Painting. His work, ranging from painting, drawing and prints to video, has been accepted regionally, nationally and internationally for inclusion into galleries, catalogues and exhibitions. In 2015 he was invited to present his abstract Waking Space: The Emerging Art Object, Quantum Theory, and Algorithmic Art at the Science of Consciousness Conference in Helsinki, Finland, which was later published.