VT999036 was from the Vienna Tiles collection and a gift of Barry Dickson.
French artist Thomas Mailaender's latest project, 100 Tiles, features a collection of customized ceramic tiles adorned with images from his infamous "Fun Archive," an online image bank of amateur photos sent from friends over the years.
Many of the common features of Penrose tilings follow from a hierarchical pentagonal structure given by substitution rules: this is often referred to as inflation and deflation, or composition and decomposition, of tilings or (collections of) tiles.
She paints a section of blue tiles onto a collection of variously sized stacked and leaning white canvases so that it looks like a slide projection.
Starting with a collection of tiles from a given tiling (which might be a single tile, a tiling of the plane, or any other collection), deflation proceeds with a sequence of steps called generations.
And the tile print in the collection's blue-green combination?
They are at available at Hastings Tile and Il Bagno Collection at 230 Park Avenue South (19th Street); (800) 351-003800
"With this acquisition, the Heckscher Museum now has the largest and possibly best collection of tile paintings and original illustrations related to the club anywhere in the country," said Kenneth Wayne, the museum's chief curator of collections and exhibitions.
