Caltech PST ART Exhibit Highlighted in Forbes

by Andrew Moseman

Last fall, Caltech participated in PST ART: Art & Science Collide, a Southern California–wide exhibition presented by Getty. Among its contributions was an exhibit that acknowledged the Institute’s history of combining the arts and sciences, Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020.

The exhibit spanned much of the Caltech campus and ran from September 27 to December 15, 2024. It featured artworks by Los Angeles artists including Shana Mabari, Jane Brucker, Lita Albuquerque, and Helen Pashgian.

For a recent online story, Forbes visited campus during the exhibit. The publication highlighted works like Mabari’s Spectrum Petals, a series of colored disks that were displayed across one of Caltech’s public lawns. Says Forbes:

Each of the circular discs is a different color and seems to stand, or float, at its given location. They are works that focus the viewer, and trigger contemplation even as they appear as perfect forms that betray no evidence of human manufacture. They interact with the available sunlight and bring to mind the work of California Light and Space artists of the 1970s.

Read the full story at Forbes here.