Sculptures Inspired by Physics, Proteins, and People

Julian Voss-Andreae is a German sculptor based in Portland, Oregon. Starting out as a painter he later changed course and studied physics, mathematics, and philosophy at the Universities of Berlin, Edinburgh and Vienna. Voss-Andreae pursued his graduate research in experimental physics, participating in a 1999 experiment at Anton Zeilinger's lab in Vienna that demonstrated quantum behavior for buckyballs. He moved to the United States to study Sculpture at the Pacific Northwest College of Art from where he graduated in 2004. Julian Voss-Andreae will talk about his sculpture, often inspired by his background in physics. Recent institutional commissions include large-scale outdoor sculptures for the new Physics and Nanotech Building of the University of Minnesota and Rutgers University, New Jersey.