“Geometries for an Imagined Future” is the title of Josiah McElheny’s solo show at James Cohan’s Tribeca gallery. The artist explores geometry through the development of crystal like sculptures with irregular geometric characteristics. The asymmetrical surfaces  of the hand formed and polished glass cones and polyhedra  offer the viewer a unique insight  into geometry.

At first glance the prisms seem to be regular polyhedra, but looking closer you can see that side are not regular polygons.

McElheny proposes that the diversity and individuality found in the irregular geometry of these forms can lead to solutions to today’s societal questions.

“Prismatic Refractive Geometry I” features a large grouping of the glass prisms in a mirrored display case. The reflection off the irregular faces of the clear forms bouncing off the reflection of the mirrors creates the sense of infinite possibilities.

Susan Happersett