“My explorations since childhood have taken me into the transcendental and spiritual with recent reading on the self-organizing universe.”

— C Bangs

Image: Mark L. Blackshear

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What People Are Saying

“C has taken these ideas that physicists find difficult to catch hold of because they have to do with questions fundamental to philosophy, aspects of life and our existence and our place in the universe and our purpose and the beauty of equations.”

— Dr. Evan Harris Walker, pioneering physicist in the field of the physics of consciousness.

“What intrigues me about her work and has drawn me to it is the mystery of what is inside it or what it is about. What is special to me are the things that I don't understand... these strange formulas.”

- Anders Knuttson, Curator

“I hear her passion about communication, her passion about life, her passion about environment which is something that I think comes out in her work.”

“It's the type of work that keeps me on my toes because I find her work constantly surprising. I think she's trying to get as close to the center of things as she can. And she realises that the center is very broad and all-encompassing and there may be no such thing as a geometrical centre, the center may be everywhere.”

— Dr. Greg Matloff, Interstellar Travel Expert and Professor

Biography

C Bangs art investigates frontier science combined with symbolist figuration from an ecological feminist point of view. Her work is included in public and private collections as well as in books and journals. Public Collections include MoMA & Brooklyn Museum, artist book collections, Library of Congress, NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center, The British Interplanetary Society, New York City College of Technology, Pratt Institute, Cornell University and Pace University. I Am the Cosmos exhibition at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton included her work, Raw Materials from Space and the Orbital Steam Locomotive.

Recognition

C Bangs' art has been in numerous exhibitions and has been included in thirteen books and two peer- reviewed journal articles several magazine articles and art catalogs. Merging art and science, she worked for three summers as a NASA Faculty Fellow. She has received a wide range of awards, recognition and funding for her art, curatorial work and writing including multiple grants from NASA. NASA greenlit the launch of the Alpha 1U CubeSat, a small satellite developed by Mason Peck and his team at Cornell’s Space Systems Design Studio. On track for launch within the next year or two, the spacecraft will deploy four “ChipSats” attached to a light sail. Six holograms created by C Bangs and Martina Mrongovius will also be attached to the side panels of the square satellite, and perhaps even imprinted on the sail.