Brazilian-American artist Rick Silva show Peaking will open at the Farmer Family Gallery from 4-6 p.m., Thursday, March 20, 2025. Peaking visualizes over a million variations of a floating mountain intersected by wildly fluctuating graph lines.
The opening and exhibition are free and open to the public. Peaking will be in the Farmer Family Gallery from March 20-May 1. The gallery is located in Reed Hall. Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday-Thursday, with further visitation by appointment. Contact breidenbach.44@osu.edu.
Peaking’s Granite and glacial formations mirror the geologic deep-time of the Cascade Mountain Range, while the graph lines that surge and dip mimic data sets often experienced on our screens: ocean temperatures, air quality, financial markets, viral variants, and heart rates. As the frequency of the formations in PEAKING escalate, so does the act of “peaking” itself, its sublime quantifications, ecstasies, and precipices.
Silva’s work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has been featured in Artforum, Wired, and Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology. He is a 2023 Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts. Silva received his MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder, and lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he is a professor at the University of Oregon.