{"id":13527,"date":"2016-11-17T17:52:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13527"},"modified":"2021-10-05T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:03:11","slug":"artist-lia-halloran-renders-the-messier-sky-objects-anew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13527","title":{"rendered":"Artist Lia Halloran renders the Messier sky objects anew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist\u00a0Lia Halloran<\/a>\u00a0has created a set\u00a0of works based on the celestial objects cataloged by astronomer\u00a0Charles Messier<\/a>\u00a0in the 18th Century. The exhibition\u00a0<\/span>Deep Sky Companion<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0on display currently at Caltech:\u00a0Art Inspired by Astronomy on Display at Caltech | Caltech<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Halloran created paintings of Messier’s objects with blue ink on semi-transparent drafting film. These were then contact-printed onto photographic paper and cut into circles evocative of the view through a telescope. Prints of each of the 110 Messier objects are displayed on the geometrically skewed lobby walls and stairwells of the Cahill building, which was designed by architect Thom Mayne. Several of the original blue-ink paintings are displayed on the stairway landings.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nM106, 2013 – Lia Halloran<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nM27, 2013 – Lia Halloran<\/em><\/p>\n

Halloran<\/a>\u00a0also\u00a0has a\u00a0collection\u00a0called\u00a0<\/span>Your Body Is A Space That Sees<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

… historical imagery and narratives to trace contributions of women in astronomy since antiquity. The of series of large scale cyanotype prints will interpret a fragmented history and represent a female-centric astronomical catalog of craters, comets, galaxies and nebula drawing from narrative, imagery and historical accounts of Hypatia of Alexandria, Caroline Herschel, Helen Sawyer Hogg, and a group of women at Harvard in the late 1800\u2019s known as Pickering\u2019s Harem\u00a0or the Harvard Computers.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Cyanotypes are printed from painted negatives that are based on the objects and narratives that were connected to these early astronomers. This process mimics early astronomical glass plates moving between transparent surfaces to a photograph without the use of a camera.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nFrom the collection “Your Body is a Space that \u00a0Sees” – Lia Halloran<\/em><\/p>\n

Check out Halloran’s other space inspired works in her\u00a0online gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artist\u00a0Lia Halloran\u00a0has created a set\u00a0of works based on the celestial objects cataloged by astronomer\u00a0Charles Messier\u00a0in the 18th Century. The exhibition\u00a0Deep Sky Companion\u00a0is\u00a0on display currently at Caltech:\u00a0Art Inspired by Astronomy on Display at Caltech | Caltech\u00a0 Halloran created paintings of Messier’s objects with blue ink on semi-transparent drafting film. These were then contact-printed onto photographic paper … Continue reading Artist Lia Halloran renders the Messier sky objects anew<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space-arts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3wb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27527,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=27527","url_meta":{"origin":13527,"position":0},"title":"Night sky highlights for July 2025","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the night sky this month, July 2025. 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