Boolean Valley
Created by Adam Silverman and Nader Tehrani, Boolean Valley (2008) is a room-sized installation comprised of 400 clay objects glazed in a striking compound of cobalt blue, black and silicon carbide. Together the pieces 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 piece is intersected with a variable slice, cut in two and redistributed over the gallery floor to produce the topography of a landscape. Silverman and Tehrani's collaborative project premiered at the San José Museum of Art then is re-sited at Montalvo's Project Space, after which the artwork moves to Los Angeles for exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art's Pacific Design Center gallery. This piece was commissioned for AGENCY.
