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Artist Spotlight: Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher✨ @chrisklapper and @patrickgallaghernyc are a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary duo whose collaborative practice explores the space where visual art, particle physics, and material experimentation meet. Working across sound, sculpture, video, and digital media, they translate complex scientific ideas and mathematical structures into immersive, sensory-driven artworks. Their practice is driven by a fascination with scale — finding ways to express vast, abstract systems through tangible forms that can be experienced on a human level.

Since beginning their collaboration in 2010, Klapper and Gallagher have developed a body of work that merges ancient visual traditions with contemporary digital processes. Their projects often draw inspiration from the quantum world, transforming scientific data into physical artworks, from marble-dust mandalas inspired by subatomic collisions to algorithmic paintings generated through custom C++ software. Rendered through techniques such as dye-sublimation on aluminum, these works create reflective environments where the viewer becomes part of the image itself.

Their ongoing research has been shaped by collaborations with scientists, including a residency at Fermilab, and continues in projects such as their recent exhibition Before Measure, where they explore how the invisible structures of the universe can be translated into visual and spatial experience.

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